Mildly amusing little pre-Code comedy. The premise is promising—a guy (Foster) and a girl (Rogers) share an upstairs flat at different times of day, and so they never meet, at least as co-tenants. But they do meet casually without knowing the other person is the one sharing the flat. The thing is that as co-tenants they've developed a dislike for one another, but as acquaintances, they're becoming romantically involved. So what will happen when each finds out who the other person really is. Sounds complicated, but the premise does set up a lot of clever comedic possibilities, especially when the archly befuddled Robert Benchley is added to the mix.The movie has its amusing parts, yet doesn't rise to a memorable level. The trouble is that Foster (Jack) has neither the charisma nor the comedic talent needed to match the scintillating Rogers (Mary). At the same time, director Seiter fails to provide the bounce a good comedy needs. And in a supporting role the middle-age Crews (Elise) unfortunately over-acts in theatrically unfunny fashion. Thus it's left to the incomparable Rogers to carry the movie, which she does while making the entire package worth watching. All in all, the result amounts to an okay programmer, but one that unfortunately doesn't live up to potential.

Had no idea that I was going to enjoy this old time 1933 comedy film starring Ginger Rodgers, (Mary Carroll) who lives in a rooming house and has fallen behind in her rent for about three months. Mary's landlord tells her she must moved out of her apartment and move upstairs in the attic until she finds a job. However, the landlord does not tell her she has to also share the attic apartment with a man named Jack Bacon, (Norman Foster) who is an artist-night watchman who has also fallen behind in his rent. Mary works during the day time and Jack shares the apartment in the day time and leaves at 8PM in the evening when Mary comes home. The two of them do not know each other and do not like each others habits or ways of living. During the day they meet and have no idea they are both sharing the same apartment. This is a very delightful comedy and worth watching. Enjoy!.

Ginger Rogers was a first rate actress, and one of the funniest when she wanted to be. This film has her renting an apartment and having trouble with her rent. Her boss (Robert Benchley) is a sexist pig who demands a date. Several times.Money forces her landlord to make her share her attic apartment with a painter (Norman Foster) – he gets days, she gets nights – and the two build certain assumptions about each other and dislike each other, sight unseen.Sight seen, though they don't know they're sharing an apartment, they fall in love.Laura Hope Crews is funny as the drunken woman of means who is constantly trying to seduce Foster, and George Sidney is delightful as the landlord.Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams puts in an appearance as the protective cabbie.All in all, a delightful film. Good plot, delightful acting, and – pre Hayes code – we get a glimpse of Miss Roger's legs. I'm sorry, but for all her splendid talent, we must not forget the God-given asset which carried her through so many later films with Freddy Astaire.

This is one of the "lost but found" films shown on TCM on 4/4/07. Apparently this and two other films shown that night were held out of public release due to litigation concerning royalties and now the powers that be at Turner Classic Movies have taken care of the licensing issues. Of the three films shown that night, none of them were great treasures but all three were excellent--very solid examples of the type of films RKO made during the era. Normally, when you think of RKO in 1933, you think KING KONG or Astaire and Rogers as a team, but there were other good films that might rank just below them in quality and entertainment.RAFTER ROMANCE was made just before Ginger Rogers began her starring films with Fred Astaire. Although she had done a few movies before this, she was not an A-list star and often appeared in B-pictures or in supporting roles. Here she is teamed with the relatively unknown actor, Norman Foster--befitting her status at RKO at the time. However, despite this technically being a "lesser" film, it was marvelously entertaining and fun provided you could suspend your sense of disbelief and just enjoy. Sure, the possibility of a man and a woman sharing an apartment and never meeting and hating each other BUT also meeting in real life and fall in love because they don't realize they are roommates is pretty tough to swallow. But it is no nicely handled and fun that you probably can look past this and just enjoy it on a superficial level.By the way, the landlord (George Sidney) was great. Sure, he was very stereotypically Jewish, but he was pretty funny and not particularly offensive. Also, when his dim-witted son was drawing a swastika on the wall "for good luck", seeing his dad slap him up side the head was a pointed and very interesting comment about the rising anti-semitism of the Nazis in Europe.