For the rest of 1936 and through 1937, Zanuck placed Stuart in movies such as "The Girl on the Front Page"—Frank S. Nugent's note: "Call it mediocre and extend your sympathies to the cast ..." Reviewing "Girl Overboard", Nugent begins, "In the definitive words of the currently popular threnode featured by a frog-voiced radio singer, Universal's 'Girl Overboard' ... is 'nuthin' but a nuthin',' and a Class B nuthin' at that."