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Harry Chandlee (story) and
Douglas W. Churchill (story) ...
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Release Date:
31 October 1931 (USA) more
Tagline:
She Was Gorgeous - He Was A Man . . . So, the other girl had to wait !
Plot:
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change. full summary | full synopsis
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Terrific comedy about the newspaper biz, class struggle and true love more (36 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Loretta Young | ... | Gallagher | |
| Robert Williams | ... | Stew Smith | |
| Jean Harlow | ... | Anne Schuyler | |
| Halliwell Hobbes | ... | Smythe, The Butler | |
| Reginald Owen | ... | Dexter Grayson | |
| Edmund Breese | ... | Conroy, The Editor | |
| Don Dillaway | ... | Michael Schuyler (as Donald Dillaway) | |
| Walter Catlett | ... | Binji Baker | |
| Claud Allister | ... | Dawson, The Valet | |
| Louise Closser Hale | ... | Mrs. Schuyler |
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Gallagher (USA) (working title)
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90 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Robert Williams died of appendicitis just three days after the film's release. more
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Continuity: When Stew Smith is married, his colleagues make fun of him in the press room. At that moment his wife calls and he walks over to the phone with his pipe in his mouth. However, when he picks up the phone, the pipe disappears. more
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Dexter Grayson: The last time I asked her for those letters, she made very uncouth noises with her mouth. more
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Featured in "SexTV: On Blondes/Walter Kundzicz/The Art of Flirting (#6.13)" (2004) more
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Stew Smith is a salt of the earth, street smart, cynical wisecracking reporter who's proud of his $75 a week salary. While tracking a story about a rich kid involved in a breach of promise suit, he gets involved with the Schuylers. This group of nitwits is a super-rich family trying desperately to avoid bad publicity. Stew catches the eye of the gorgeous Ann Schuyler, and the two fall madly in love to the absolute horror of Anne's snooty mother (who unfortunately is afflicted with gastritis). Indeed, Stew and Ann actually get married--with predictably catastrophic results. How will the filmmakers deliver Stew out of Ann's arms and into the arms of Gallagher--the equally gorgeous reporter who's madly in love with Stew?
This wonderful Frank Capra comedy must have appealed greatly to the sentiments of the 1931 audience at the very depths of the Depression. The Schuylers (and their idiot lawyer Dexter Grayson) were everything that people loved to hate--snooty, superior, stupid, wholly undeserving of their vast riches. They are mocked ruthlessly, while Stew Smith and Gallagher, as worthy representatives of the working class, are portrayed with understanding and compassion. Stew briefly embraces the idle life of the super-rich (even to wearing garters), but, of course, this doesn't last long.
This is more than just a film for Frank Capra fans--it's a glorious spoof of the old-time newspaper business and a tasty bit of social history.