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MOTION PICTURE HERALD
“Tt is Kay Francis in a new, light, subtle characterization. It is backstage Washington as the better columnists paint it and cartoonists don’t dare. It is a play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton with most of the sophisticated dialogue and hair-trigger repartee left in. It is a polished spoofing of politics, stuff-shirted eminence, tea table intrigue, feminism and chain journalism.”
FILM DAILY
“Rich in comedy and satire, pix nets a full quota of laughs. None of the rich comedy and satire of the play has been lost in the transfer of ‘First Lady’ to the screen. Stanley Logan has done a high class job of directing, getting a full quota of laughs out of the various sequences. Kay Francis does fine work, and Verree Teasdale, in her best role to date, gives a superb performance. Walter Connolly is a delight as a dyspeptic member of the Supreme Court, who pays more at
tention to his fishing and radio than to his wife. Louise Fazenda is a heavy laughgetter as a reform leader.”
MOTION PICTURE DAILY
“ “First Lady’ is a conversation piece of high order satirizing politics, practices and personalities of backstage Washington as publicized during recent years in newspaper columns syndicated from the national capital. Kay Francis has a new kind of role in the light comedy lead and is evenly matched with Verree Teasdale in sparkling repartee. Walter Connolly, Grant Mitchell, Louise Fazenda and Marjorie Rambeau supply other deeply etched caricatures of Washington types, while Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Victor Jory handle straight assignments ably.”
DAILY VARIETY
“Swiftly carried along through the excellent portrayals of a cast headed by Kay Francis and Preston Foster, and the especially pungent dialogue, ‘First Lady,’ a topical farce of the machinations of the politically designing women in Washington, emerges as topnotch entertainment.”
WEEKLY VARIETY
“The bright dialogue, the behind-the-scenes intimacies of how official Washington makes and breaks its pulitical puppets over tea cups and after dinner cordials, is good film material. ... An excellent cast, good direction and a tasteful production unite to make it a satisfactory first run entertainment.”
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