Goldie Gets Along

Goldie Gets Along is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Lili Damita, Charles Morton and Sam Hardy.

[2][3] A young Frenchwoman living with her aunt and uncle in New Jersey has ambitions of making it in Hollywood and sand sets out to hitchhike her wake there.

Her adventures involve her briefly being sent to jail for stealing a car and taking part in a series of crooked beauty contests.

Film historian Ruth Anne Dwyer considers this fictional character “an early version of today’s feminist.”[7] Dwyer writes: Goldie Gets Along, a charming and remarkable film, espouses female independence in a manner which women of today would herald as unique for American film…She believes in her own intelligence and talent, and happily postpones what everyone else feel she must (italics) want: a marriage to a handsome suitor and marital life in a small town.

[8]Dwyer adds that Goldie, in her determination to succeed in Hollywood, skilfully neutralizes efforts to derail her ambitions, “battling sexual harassment at every train depot, [doing so] by appearing to pander to, but in fact, outwitting, all of the men around her.”[9]