The Hot Heiress [DVD]

Masters of the musical Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart contribute three songs to this lighthearted reverse-Cinderella romance. High atop a skeletal skyscraper under construction, riveters Bill Dugan (Tom Dugan) and Hap Harrigan (Ben Lyon) cry Got ya! While catching red-hot rivets and singing Nobody Loves a Riveter (But His Mother) when a sleeping beauty in a neighboring penthouse catches Haps eye. Enraptured, Hap misses his Got ya! #and a rivet crashes through the boudoir window, causing a fire. Racing to the rescue, Hap douses the flames while setting the heiress, Juliette Hunter (Ona Munson), aflame with desire. The practical-minded Hap sees no future in their cross-class romance, but Juliette is determined to land Hap as her man. First, however, she needs to break things off with her high-society fiance, Clay (Walter Pidgeon). And Clay is determined to prove Hap an upstart lout