The vixen of the 1930’s is emerging; a strong willed and sexually desireable woman playing multiple men for her affections. The social tradition of a woman not being in charge of her own sexuality and marital status was being greatly disputed by the changes of the 1930’s, changes that encouraged individual choice and os one of the odd social issues to come to the fore in 1930’s america, despite the desire for escapism. You have criminal elements and sordid plotlines that were more akin to films of the 1920’s. However this film doesn't fully live up to it's independent female promise by diluting the raw social issues of marriage and choice into a structure that makes the promise that any woman can just get married and rid herself of issues of poverty that were more common in the 1930’s.
There is the issue of this film sitting right before the Hays code was actually enforced in regards to whether it was representative of a cultural shift or an anomaly. You definitely see the emergence of the woman and female protagonist, full of sex and lust, and is desired by all throughout the 1930’s but the explicitness of her behavior and the need to tie everything to marriage also emerged in the mid to late 1930s as a way to contend with the dominant christian outlook of the time that women shouldn’t be sexually promiscuous. It might also be in response to the degree to which divorce was happening and ramping up in the 30’s.
Either way, issues of sex and marriage came to the fore in the 30’s in a way that arguably both empowered women but also made them subservient to men as well. Regardless women were being put onscreen as leading ladies in control of their sexuality and flaunting it for the world to see, this is a radical shift in entertainment standards since the days of Men only theater where women couldn't even be on stage.