Danger: Love at Work (1937)A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him. Director:Otto Preminger |
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Danger: Love at Work (1937)A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him. Director:Otto Preminger |
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| Ann Sothern | ... |
Toni Pemberton
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| Jack Haley | ... |
Henry MacMorrow
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Mary Boland | ... |
Mrs. Alice Pemberton
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| Edward Everett Horton | ... |
Howard Rogers
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| John Carradine | ... |
Herbert Pemberton
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Walter Catlett | ... |
Uncle Alan
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Benny Bartlett | ... |
Junior Pemberton
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Maurice Cass | ... |
Uncle Goliath
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Alan Dinehart | ... |
Allan Duncan
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Etienne Girardot | ... |
Albert Pemberton
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E.E. Clive | ... |
Wilbur
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Margaret McWade | ... |
Aunt Patty
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Margaret Seddon | ... |
Aunt Pitty
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| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... |
Chemist
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Hilda Vaughn | ... |
Pemberton's Maid
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A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.
Thirties comedy tends to zanier-than-thou smugness, even in official classics like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby. So it's a pleasant surprise to find Preminger already applying his lawyerly objectivity to a boilerplate screwball script, giving the zanies and the normals their due but not endorsing either. When Jack Haley asks Ann Sothern to elope and she protests, "If I don't have a wedding my family will never speak to me again" he shoots back, "That settles it!" and whisks her off - in effect a shotgun wedding between the two camps. A delightful tidbit that deserves reconsideration for the canon. (And the title song will have your toes tapping for days.)