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18 May 1934 (USA)
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Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined...
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Loretta Does Her Best
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(Complete credited cast)| Loretta Young | ... | Letty Strong | |
| Cary Grant | ... | Malcolm Trevor | |
| Jackie Kelk | ... | Mickey Strong | |
| Marion Burns | ... | Mrs. Alyce Trevor | |
| Henry Travers | ... | Fuzzy | |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Attoney Brian | |
| Russell Hopton | ... | Steve Karns | |
| Harry Green | ... | Adolph - Letty's Lawyer |
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62 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Australia:PG |
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
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UK:A (original rating) |
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Andrew Tombes is on an early cast list playing the part of "Max Lieber." A character called "Max" is mentioned in the film, but Tombes never appeared.
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Loretta Young looks gorgeous. She gets to wear a lot of clothes. It's a little hard to buy her as an amoral, manipulative man-trap. But she works hard and this is partly because we know her oeuvre.
I have recently watched a lot of her early movies, which are not substantial enough to comment on. These include "Road To Paradise," "Party Girl," and "Big Business Girl." These are all early sound pictures and very creaky.
Here, though, Young is costarred with youthful and handsome Cary Grant. He hasn't quite become the Cary Grant who is rightly a fable in the history of Hollywood. But he's of course handsome and they are well matched -- if not necessarily plausible romantically.
The rest of the cast is OK. But the director was Lowell Sherman, who was excellent and has been underrated in later decades.