Manhattan working girl
Jean Arthur bids goodbye to her three erstwhile suitors (
Grant Withers,
Hans Conried and
Grady Sutton) to take a bus tour of the west. En route, she meets handsome rodeo-star
John Wayne, whose bucking bronco hurls him directly into her lap. Stranded in a tank town with Wayne and his sidekick
Charles Winninger, Arthur is introduced to the sort of frontier activities not covered by the tour books: gambling, boozing and brawling. Not surprisingly, Arthur wants to hightail it back to the East, but by now Wayne has fallen in love with her.
Lady Takes a Chance was produced for RKO by
Jean Arthur's then-husband, Frank Ross. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide