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Director:
Harry Beaumont
Writers:
Aurania Rouverol (story)
Richard Schayer (continuity)
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Release Date:
7 February 1931 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her... more | add synopsis
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okay early Crawford/Gable gangsta flick more (12 total)

Cast

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Joan Crawford ... Bonnie Jordan
Lester Vail ... Robert 'Bob' Townsend
Cliff Edwards ... Bert Scranton
William Bakewell ... Rodney Jordan
William Holden ... Stanley Jordan

Clark Gable ... Jake Luva
Earle Foxe ... Wally Baxter (as Earl Foxe)
Purnell Pratt ... Mr. Parker - Editor (as Purnell B. Pratt)
Hale Hamilton ... Mr. Selby
Natalie Moorhead ... Della
Joan Marsh ... Sylvia
Russell Hopton ... Whitey - Luva's Henchman
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Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:(Banned) (original rating) | USA:Approved
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

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Before this movie Joan Crawford told people not to have affairs with their leading men until they made three movies together. She and Clark Gable had only made two together, but they started to have an affair during this movie. Afterwards Crawford said she had to eat her words, but that they tasted sweet. more
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Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV) more
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okay early Crawford/Gable gangsta flick, 3 April 2008
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Author: ksf-2 from southwest US

Lots of familiar faces in this one - Joan Crawford stars as Bonnie Jordan, with Clark Gable as the gangster Jake Luva. Cliff Edwards is Bert, and a 20 year old Ann Dvorak is still playing chorus-girl parts at this point. Bonnie's brother "Rodney" is played by William Bakewell, much less-well known, but had made 166 films and TV shows, starting in the silents. Even Sam McDaniel, Hattie's brother, plays the butler in this one. You can tell it's pre-code, since they are buying illegal liquor, and having naughty conversations here and there. Dad goes broke in the stock market crash, and the mooching "kids", now adults, must go to work. Their choices of professions give them separate dilemmas, and they both have decisions to make. Joanie does a dance number in Jake's club in this one, to be able to cozy up to him, shocking all her old high-society "friends". Plain and simple story, no real surprises, but a likely-enough gangster plot, I guess. Everyone was heavy on the makeup, and Joan Crawford does her big, obvious facial expressions which had been so necessary in her earlier silent films, but now seem overdone. I didn't see her slap anyone in this film, but I guess she hadn't started that trend yet in 1931. Entertaining film. Crawford and Gable had come a long way since they were both extras in "Merry Widow" 1925.

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