She Couldn't Say No is a musical

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 drama that stars Winnie Lightner

Winnie Lightner

Winnie Lightner was an American motion picture actress. Perhaps her most famous role was as a gold-digger named Mabel, in Gold Diggers of Broadway...

, fresh from her success in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). It was adapted from a play by Benjamin M. Kaye. An aspiring singer ends up in a love triangle with a gangster and a socialite.

Cast

• Winnie Lightner
  Winnie Lightner
  Winnie Lightner was an American motion picture actress. Perhaps her most famous role was as a gold-digger named Mabel, in Gold Diggers of Broadway...
  
   as Winnie Harper
• Chester Morris
  Chester Morris
  Chester Morris was an American actor, who starred in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s.-Career:...
  
   as Jerry Casey
• Sally Eilers
  Sally Eilers
  -Life and career:Born as Dorothea Sally Eilers in New York City to a Jewish-American mother, Paula, and an Irish-American father, Peter Eilers, . She was educated in Los Angeles and went into films because so many of her friends were in pictures. She studied for the stage, specialising in dancing...
  
   as Iris
• Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur was an American stage and motion picture actor.-Early years:Born John Lennox Arthur Williams in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Arthur was a veteran of twenty-five years on stage before he made his screen debut in 1923's The Unknown Purple...
  
   as Tommy Blake, a stereotypical gay character
• Tully Marshall
  Tully Marshall
  William Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.-Career:...
  
   as Big John
• Louise Beavers
  Louise Beavers
  Louise Beavers was an African-American film and television actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films from the 1920s to the 1930s, most often in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Beavers was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American...
  
   as Cora

Songs

All songs were performed by Lightner.

• "Watching My Dreams Go By", lyrics by Al Dubin
  Al Dubin
  Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...
  
  , music by Joe Burke
  Joe Burke (composer)
  Joseph A. Burke was an American composer and pianist. He was born in Philadelphia and died in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and started as a pianist accompanying silent movies and an arranger in a music publishing firm. It was during this time...
  
  
• "A Darn Fool Woman Like Me", Al Dubin and Joe Burke
• "Bouncing the Baby Around", Al Dubin and Joe Burke
• "Ping Pongo"
• "The Poison Kiss of That Spaniard"

Preservation

The film appears to be lost, but the soundtrack survives intact on Vitaphone

Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

disks.