Loose Ankles/The Naughty Flirt

Comedy sails merrily along on a sea of bathtub gin with two Prohibition-era romps. Formidable comedienne Louise Fazenda makes an unlikely flapper in Loose Ankles, playing the disapproving aunt of free-spirited Loretta Young. But when auntie is tricked into getting a taste of speakeasy booze and attentive boy toys, the joint will jump! Douglas Fairbanks Jr. co-stars. The Naughty Flirt is kewpie-doll cutie Alice White, an heiress whose love life is a mess -- thanks to vixenish villainess Myrna Loy, who sends her brother to steal the flirt away from her earnest fiance. Will the romantic machinations put the dead-broke siblings in the money -- or will true love triumph?

• comedy