Tonight's Movie: It's a Wise Child (1931) - A Warner Archive Blu-ray Review

Last year I attended two days of the Cinecon Classic Film Festival, but I was disappointed I was unable to catch IT'S A WISE CHILD (1931), a rarely seen pre-Code comedy starring Marion Davies.Very happily IT'S A WISE CHILD has just been released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.Like LETTY LYNTON (1932), which is due out in the immediate future, the underlying play by Laurence E. Johnson has fallen into the public domain, clearing the path for release.Davies plays Joyce Stanton, a free spirit who has managed to become engaged to an elderly banker (Robert McWade) while also dating one of his clerks (Lester Vail).Joyce exasperates her family's loyal attorney and trustee Steve (Stanley Blackmer), who has secretly loved her for many years and continues to bail her out of various scrapes.Joyce ending up in jail after the police raid a roadhouse is bad enough, but when she's spotted visiting a maternity nurse soon thereafter, the town gossips go crazy, starting with the banker's…