Smartest Girl in Town is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley, written by Viola Brothers Shore,[1] and starring Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes and Harry Jans.

[4][5] RKO Pictures was also the studio which produced the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers series of films, thus Smartest Girl's comic supporting players, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, all had prominent roles in the previous year's Astaire-Rogers hit, Top Hat.

[6] One additional Astaire-Rogers title for RKO, the pair's initial teaming as supporting players in 1933's Flying Down to Rio, starred Gene Raymond (with leading lady Dolores del Río) and included Eric Blore as the typically mannered assistant hotel manager, Mr. Butterbass.

The same year, Blore sported a French accent playing a major, fourth-billed role, in the musical comedy Folies Bergère de Paris, with top-tier stars Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon and Smartest Girl's Ann Sothern.

In addition to the Astaire-Rogers Swing Time and the Raymond-Sothern She's Got Everything, they were given two 1937 B-picture starring vehicles, We're on the Jury and Meet the Missus, as well as roles among the numerous players in the following year's Bob "Bazooka" Burns–Jack Oakie-Kenny Baker musical comedy, Radio City Revels.