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Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Writers:
Abem Finkel (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
20 January 1934 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Paul Muni ... Brad Bradshaw
Glenda Farrell ... Gerry Krale
Ned Sparks ... Shammy McClure
Robert Barrat ... Beau Brownell
Berton Churchill ... John L. Graham
Kathryn Sergava ... Grace
Hobart Cavanaugh ... 'Fully' Fullerton
Douglass Dumbrille ... Harvey Dawes (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Edward Ellis ... Mr. O'Connell
Paul Kaye ... Helwig
Donald Meek ... 'Durky' Durkin
Dorothy Le Baire ... Rosa Marinello (as Dorothy LeBaire)
Marjorie Gateson ... Mrs. Frank J. Canfield
George Meeker ... Jimmy Sheldon
Harold Huber ... Leo
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Runtime:
75 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #2645-R, 3 September 1936 for re-release)
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The Song "Hi Nellie" was written for the movie, since the published sheet music has pictures of Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell on its cover. It was not sung, but probably was played at the Merry Go Round Club. more
Movie Connections:
Version of You Can't Escape Forever (1942) more
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Sob Sister Paul, 22 September 2009
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

In that stretch of years between his performance in I'm A Fugitive From A Chain Gang and The Story Of Louis Pasteur, Paul Muni hit a dry patch with his home studio of Warner Brothers. They put him in a series of films way beneath his talent when you consider what he subsequently did and I'm told he particularly despised this film. From his point of view I can see why.

Still Hi, Nellie! is not all that bad, though I think Muni was definitely a second choice. James Cagney must have been doing something else at the time. The film has the feel of a project meant for Cagney.

Knowing that and knowing how much he wanted to do much more serious parts Muni pulls out all the stops and hams it up to beat the Philharmonic. I guess he had to have some fun.

Muni is your hardboiled editor of a city newspaper, a very typical part for the Thirties. But when he uncharacteristically soft pedals a story about a bank folding and a prominent civic leader disappearing, he gets himself demoted. Publisher Berton Churchill can't fire him because of a contract, but instead demotes him to the writer of the advice to the lovelorn column. That's a source of great amusement to all those who were under him before, especially Glenda Farrell who was writing that column and wanted a chance for some hard hitting journalism.

But Paul is nothing else if not resourceful and when a chance sob sister letter comes to his attention that might give him a lead on that story that he got in a sling over, he runs with it.

Warner Brothers and director Mervyn LeRoy gave Paul a really good cast to support him with Donald Meek playing the world's oldest office boy, Douglass Dumbrille as the editor who succeeds Muni, and Robert Barrat as the political boss of the city and ultimate villain of the piece.

It's not Zola, or Pasteur, but Hi, Nellie is not half bad as entertainment. Just not up to Paul Muni's exacting standards.

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