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Overview
Release Date:
12 January 1934 (USA) morePlot:
Social climbing Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a bunch of New York society types, each of whom has much to reveal. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
a golden oldie moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Marie Dressler | ... | Carlotta Vance | |
| John Barrymore | ... | Larry Renault | |
| Wallace Beery | ... | Dan Packard | |
| Jean Harlow | ... | Kitty Packard | |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... | Oliver Jordan | |
| Lee Tracy | ... | Max Kane | |
| Edmund Lowe | ... | Dr. Wayne Talbot | |
| Billie Burke | ... | Millicent Jordan | |
| Madge Evans | ... | Paula Jordan | |
| Jean Hersholt | ... | Jo Stengel | |
| Karen Morley | ... | Mrs. Lucy Talbot | |
| Louise Closser Hale | ... | Hattie Loomis | |
| Phillips Holmes | ... | Ernest DeGraff | |
| May Robson | ... | Mrs. Wendel (cook) | |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | Ed Loomis |
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113 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)MOVIEmeter: 
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As originally filmed, Carlotta's dog was named Mussolini but due to changing political climate, his name was post-dubbed as Tarzan, even though Marie Dressler's lips are clearly saying the first name. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Carlotta Vance first tells Oliver that the sold her Jordan Shipping stock, she says that it was bought by a "Mr. Baldridge". However in the next scene, when Oliver goes to the phone to call another stockholder to see if he'd sold his stock too, she remarks that she hoped Oliver wasn't angry that she'd sold the stock to "Mr. Bainbridge". moreQuotes:
Millicent Jordan: You're joking! Ask that common little woman to the house with that noisy, vulgar man? He smells Oklahoma! moreSoundtrack:
I Loved You Then (As I Love You Now) moreFAQ
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What a cast - MGM's finest in a series of vignettes leading up to Mrs Jordan's dinner party (which we never actually see). Jean Harlow is at her wisecracking best and her most stunning; Marie Dressler and John Barrymore are terrific as washed-up actors; everyone is just excellent. Everything that can possibly go wrong does - you can't help but sympathise as Billie Burke's Mrs Jordan gradually gets more and more ruffled by the day's events. Some great one liners and yet another excellent entry on Cukor's CV.