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Overview

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6.7/10   228 votes
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Director:
William A. Seiter
Writers:
H.W. Hanemann (screenplay) and
Sam Mintz (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 September 1933 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
Ginger Rogers, a working girl, shares a Greenwich Village apartment with Norman Foster, an artist-night watchman... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
On TCM's "lost and found" schedule...but a minor discovery... more

Cast

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Ginger Rogers ... Mary Carroll
Norman Foster ... Jack Bacon
George Sidney ... Max Eckbaum
Robert Benchley ... H. Harrington Hubbell
Laura Hope Crews ... Elise Peabody Whittington Smythe
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Fritzie (as Guinn Williams)
Sidney Miller ... Julius Eckbaum
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Additional Details

Runtime:
73 min (Turner library print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #1512-R: 11 September 1935 for re-release) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Ellen Corby, as one of the telephone solicitors, can be seen among those gathering around Robert Benchley when he announces the "banquet", and again at the picnic as one of a trio of prize winners. She's the dark haired one with her back to the camera. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Living on Love (1937) more
Soundtrack:
Dinah more

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8 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
On TCM's "lost and found" schedule...but a minor discovery..., 4 April 2007
6/10
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

There's a feeling of deja vu to the plot of RAFTER ROMANCE about two people who aren't aware of each other's identity until they fall in love, but in 1933 it must have seemed quite an original idea.

At any rate, it gives GINGER ROGERS and NORMAN FOSTER a nice chance to show what they could do with light comedy and tender romance. They play two roommates who work different shifts but who eventually meet and fall in love. (Shades of YOU'VE GOT MAIL and other such stories). And oddly enough, ROBERT BENCHLEY would be making a play for Ginger as a lecherous wolf, just as he would some ten years later in THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR when he suggested she slip into something more comfortable.

After a series of pranks and misunderstandings, Foster and Rogers find each other at the company picnic and promptly fall in love.

Watch for LAURA HOPE CREWS (Aunt Pittypat of GWTW) as a woman who wants to "keep" Norman Foster--and GUINN WILLIAMS as a brawny taxicab driver.

Summing up: Good fun with an early look at Ginger.

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