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Writers:
Clara Beranger (writer)
Edith Ellis (play)
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Release Date:
15 June 1929 (USA) more
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Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family... more | add synopsis
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One of the finest of MGM's early talkies more (2 total)

Cast

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Conrad Nagel ... William van Luyn
Bessie Love ... Helen Thayer
Leila Hyams ... Joan Thayer
Robert Ober ... Henry Thayer
James Neill ... Mr. Thayer
Edythe Chapman ... Mrs. Thayer
Paul Kruger ... Tom Gibney
Kenneth Gibson ... Frank Thayer
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Runtime:
80 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (MovieTone)

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This was an adaptation of a Broadway play titled "White Collars" by Edith Ellis. The original stage production opened at the Cort Theatre in New York on Feb. 23, 1925 and ran for 104 performances. There was a later film adaptation called Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938) starring Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey and Lana Turner. more
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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
One of the finest of MGM's early talkies, 17 June 2003
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Author: reelguy2 from Boulder, Colorado

William DeMille, brother of Cecil, directed one of the finest of MGM's early talkies. Conrad Nagel plays a millionaire who marries his secretary and then sets out to change her middle-class family's bias against the upper class.

Although the film - based on a play - is confined to mainly one set, it never appears stagy, thanks to a good variety of camera setups and seamless editing. And the cast is uniformly excellent, with Nagel again proving why he was one of the most in-demand actors of the early talkies, with his strong speaking voice. The recorded sound is also very clear.

As far as I know, TCM has shown this gem only once, but it's high time they make it available again

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