Produced by Universal Pictures it starred William Powell as a dim-witted U.S. senator who decides to run for president, with Ella Raines as a reporter interested in the detailed diary he has kept about all the political misdeeds of his colleagues.

Ashton embarks on a cross-country tour to court voters, becomes a popular candidate, and returns to speak at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

They offer to get him appointed commissioner of a professional sports league, a job that pays twice the salary of the President of the U.S. Poppy manages to retrieve the diary from Valerie, but loses it to Lew, who tells Ashton the good news.

A contemporary review in The New York Times by film critic Bosley Crowther opined that "Mr. MacArthur, who wrote the irreverent script, keeps things snapping and cracking in clever and hilarious style.

And Mr. Kaufman, the director [...] pictures and paces them likewise," additionally noting that "William Powell as the Senator does about everything that a competent actor of farce comedy could do to make him a joke.

"[2] Variety reported that Kaufman "manifests pace and polish in a fast-moving bit of fluff," that Powell "does a fine job as the stuffy dimwit of a senator," and that the casting "is good down the line.

"[3] Writing in AllMovie, critic Craig Butler described the film as having "quite a few [funny moments], some drawn from some decent wordplay and verbal sparring, others from the expert comic pomposity of William Powell, as well as a sterling supporting cast.