[Bounci]

This clip comes from the film Kiss and Make Up from 1934, about a beauty clinic run by Cary Grant. Naturally with the surgeon being Cary Grant, women flock to go there, and Grant finds himself snared by one such client (Genevieve Tobin), much to the ire of her husband (Edward Everett Horton). Sadly Grant's character is too self absorbed to notice his loyal secretary (Helen Mack) is in love with him, and ends up taking her with him and Tobin on their honeymoon to work.

What is such a delightful surprise in this film is a scene where Helen Mack gets to escape from office work to go swimming in a bathing costume, encountering Tobin's ex (Horton) on a raft in the sea. Even more of a surprise is just how see through that bathing costume is of Mack's, revealing more of the lovely lady than I doubt she imagined. They certainly didn't tell her to change costumes when it came to the final edit, that's for sure! As for Mack, she started out as a child star in the silent era before having her biggest success in the 1930's, being best remembered for the lead in Son of Kong (1933), as well as roles in The Milky Way (1936) and His Girl Friday (1940). She retired from films in 1945, and died in 1985, aged 72, but with her looks she should of had a much longer career. By the way, I've slowed down those swimming costume moments for you, just so you can judge better Helen's undoubted 'star talents.'