YMMV / Smarty

• Strawman Has a Point: Vernon is absolutely right that Tony slapping Vicki for annoying her a bit is a deplorable action but because he's portrayed as a weak and pompous individual that hypocritically slaps her too, later on the movie, and is only taking action towards it less for being worried towards Vicki and more because he's hoping to get her to himself, his concerns aren't taked seriously.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The film is a pretty amazing unintentional period piece from a couple of perspectives. First of all, it is wall-to-wall sex talk, non-stop double entendres, Joan Blondell getting a dress ripped off to expose her body in a negligee—all the Fanservice stamps this film dramatically as a memento of The Pre-Code Era, the 1930-34 time frame in which for a while Hollywood got very racy indeed. But beyond that, there's the central message of the film, best encapsulated in the line of dialogue "A good sock in the eye is something every woman needs at least once in her life." The movie suggests that women need to be kept in line with the occasional punch in the face. Blondell's character Vicki quite clearly likes getting punched in the face. At the end of the film, when her formerly wishy-washy husband finally hits her like he means it, her face lights up in joy. The final scene has Vicki on the couch, looking at her husband with bedroom eyes and saying "Tony—hit me again."
• Values Dissonance: It's a raunchy film whose entire message is "All women deserve beatings and secretly like it", so it definitely wouldn't fly today or during the later Code era.