Reaching for the Moon Poster
MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 8,754 this week

Reaching for the Moon (1930)

UNRATED  74 min  -  Comedy | Music | Romance   -  21 February 1931 (USA)
5.9
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 5.9/10 from 163 users  
Reviews: 14 user | 2 critic

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner... See full summary »

Director:

Edmund Goulding
 Loading Watchlist 

Watch now

Buy it from Amazon »
See IMDb's coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival

Related Lists

image of title
a list of 13 titles by brickley220 created 9 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Download the free IMDb App
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Douglas Fairbanks ...
Larry Day
Bebe Daniels ...
Vivien Benton
Edward Everett Horton ...
Roger, the Valet
Claud Allister Claud Allister ...
Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Jack Mulhall Jack Mulhall ...
Jimmy Carrington
Walter Walker Walter Walker ...
James Benton
June MacCloy ...
Kitty, Aero Girl With Long Earrings
Helen Jerome Eddy Helen Jerome Eddy ...
Larry's Secretary
Bing Crosby ...
Bing
Edit

Storyline

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl... Written by Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>  

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Valet | Ocean Liner | Cocktail | Southhampton England | Bankruptcy  | See more »

Taglines:

What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.

Genres:

Comedy | Music | Romance

Edit

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Para alcanzar la Luna See more »

Company Credits

Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

USA: (shortened version) (songs deleted)  | USA: (original release)  | Canada: (Ontario)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1
See full technical specs »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Ginger Rogers originally was cast as Kitty, but instead Ginger went to Broadway where she starred in the classic Gershwin musical, "Girl Crazy." Earlier, Ruby Keeler had been considered for the Kitty role. See more »

Quotes

Roger: There's a vast difference, sir, between the art of making money and the art of making... a lady.
See more »

Connections

Referenced in "Wind at My Back: A Ghost of a Chance (#2.10)" (1997) See more »

Soundtracks

"Reaching for the Moon"
(uncredited)
Written by Irving Berlin
(heard instrumentally over the opening credits, as background music for a love scene, then briefly at the end) See more »