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21 November 1931 (USA)
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Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment...
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Mature pre-code Hollywood drama
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Joan Crawford | ... | Marian Martin | |
| Clark Gable | ... | Mark Whitney | |
| Wallace Ford | ... | Al Manning | |
| Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher | ... | Wally Stuart (as Skeets Gallagher) | |
| Frank Conroy | ... | Horace Travers | |
| Marjorie White | ... | Vernice LaVerne | |
| John Miljan | ... | John Driscoll | |
| Clara Blandick | ... | Marian's Mother |
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76 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Australia:PG |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-PG (TV rating) |
USA:Approved |
UK:PG (re-rating) (1994) |
UK:A (original rating)
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Charlotte Greenwood was signed as a cast member, but she was not seen in the movie. News items mentioned several performers during production, but some did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These include Florence Lake, Virginia Sale and Francis Ford.
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Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland:
You don't own me. Nobody does. My life belongs to me.
Al Manning: You'll make one fine mess of it.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: It'll still belong to me.
Marian's mother: Don't, Marian, you frighten me when you talk like that.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: If I were a man it wouldn't frighten you! You'd think it was right for me to go out and get anything I could out of life, and use anything I had to get it. Why should men be so different? All they've got are their brains and they're not afraid to use them. Well neither am I!
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Al Manning: You'll make one fine mess of it.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: It'll still belong to me.
Marian's mother: Don't, Marian, you frighten me when you talk like that.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: If I were a man it wouldn't frighten you! You'd think it was right for me to go out and get anything I could out of life, and use anything I had to get it. Why should men be so different? All they've got are their brains and they're not afraid to use them. Well neither am I!
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Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV)
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A Hot Time in the Old Town
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This movie goes to prove that pre-code Hollywood was much more mature and knew how to make movies of good taste on socially relevant issues. The theme of the woman who lives as a 'mistress' of the man she loves because he prefers not to get married was very daring in those days. The social background was also cleverly handled. One scene is particularly impressive and intelligent: when J. Crawford, just about to cross a railroad, stops to wait a train go slowly by and, through each window that passes, she has a glimpse of how the other half lives, just as though she were watching a movie. A visually very inspired moment.