 In his September 22, 1939, review of the film, he reported that “a style show in Technicolor...may be lovely—at least that's what most of the women around us seemed to think—but has no place in the picture.Why not a diving exhibition or a number by the Rockettes?It is the only mark against George Cukor's otherwise shrewd and sentient direction.”

On the other hand, British critic Peter Bradshaw compares this sequence to the nightmare in Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound".