The screenplay by Laird Doyle, Lillie Hayward and Roy Chanslor based on the novel Women Are Bum Newspapermen by Richard Macauley.

Ellen Garfield refuses to marry fellow reporter Curt Devlin until he admits she is as good at her craft as any man.

The two work for rival newspapers, and their ongoing efforts to better each other eventually leads to Ellen getting fired when Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict of a murder trial.

The plots of the 1937 release Back in Circulation, allegedly based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and the 1938 Torchy Blane film Blondes at Work are very similar to Front Page Woman.

"[2] Variety said, "[It] lacks authenticity and is so far fetched it'll hand newsscribes around the country a constant run of ripples.