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Director:
Howard Hawks
Writers:
Charles Bruce Millholland (play)
Ben Hecht (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 May 1934 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career. full summary | add synopsis
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(4 articles)
Screwball's Glam Mistress
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Barrymore, Lombard, and Hawks Are Outstanding more

Cast

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John Barrymore ... Oscar Jaffe

Carole Lombard ... Lily Garland
Walter Connolly ... Oliver Webb
Roscoe Karns ... Owen O'Malley
Ralph Forbes ... George Smith

Charles Lane ... Max Jacobs (as Charles Levison)
Etienne Girardot ... Mathew J. Clark
Dale Fuller ... Sadie
Edgar Kennedy ... Oscar McGonigle
Billie Seward ... Anita
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
20th Century (USA) (poster title)
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #4312-R, 11 May 1938 for re-release)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Versions presently in distribution, as shown on Turner Classic Movies, bear the updated Columbia logo and title credits from the 1938 re-release. more
Goofs:
Plot holes: When Jaffe takes over direction, he addresses Lily by her new name and she responds, even though she hasn't heard it before. This gap was caused by the deletion of a brief scene in which O'Malley informs her that Jaffe has changed her name. more
Quotes:
Oscar Jaffe: Did you hear that? She's left me.
Oliver Webb: Say the word, O.J., and I'll kill myself.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Jeopardy!: (2005-12-09)" (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Happy Days Are Here Again more

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Barrymore, Lombard, and Hawks Are Outstanding, 5 May 1999
Author: Roger Zotti from Preston, CT>

John Barrymore is in rare form in Twentieth Century (1934), Howard Hawks's hilarious, fast-paced screwball comedy. He plays flamboyant Broadway director-producer Oscar Jaffe, a man for whom the whole world is truly a stage. The always enchanting Carole Lombard co-stars as Mildred Plotka/Lily Garland. (Oscar demanded the name change because Mildred Plotka isn't nearly as glamorous sounding as Lily Garland.) Mildred, an aspiring Broadway actress, is remade by Oscar into a star of the New York stage. For three years he directs her plays, guides her career, and is her lover. But after they have a big disagreement, she takes off for Hollywood. Her career soars; his plummets. Time passes and then on board the Twentieth Century heading for Grand Central Station, they meet again. As usual in a Hawks film, the supporting cast is outstanding; and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's screenplay is one of their finest.

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