A very sexy vamp.

Betty Compson as Alice doesn't seem to have been a great actress, but she was a very convincing vamp in the scene just before Jerry gets arrested. She struts hipshot about the room striking poses I'd only previously seen from Mae West, but unlike Mae whose vamping is comical, Alice got my attention in a whole different way. She kisses Jerry like she means it, then lies on the bed and gives an Oscar-worthy embodiment of a turned-on girl. And the way the scene was shot it's clear she was meant to turn us on. Those pre-code days did have a lot to be said for them!