It's Joy Stanhope's, a Park Avenue debutante, coming-out party. It's the event of the winter and everyone is there, including the most eligible bachelor, Jimmy Wolverton. Chris Hanson, ...
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| Frances Dee | ... | Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope | |
| Gene Raymond | ... | Chris Hansen | |
| Alison Skipworth | ... | Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe | |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Troon | |
| Harry Green | ... | Harry Gold | |
| Gilbert Emery | ... | Herbert Emerson Stanhope | |
| Marjorie Gateson | ... | Mrs. Ada Stanhope | |
| Phillip Trent | ... | Jimmy Wolverton (as Clifford Jones) | |
| Jessie Ralph | ... | Nora | |
| Germaine De Neel | ... | Louise | |
| Paul Porcasi | ... | Manager | |
| Jean De Briac | ... | Frenchman | |
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It's Joy Stanhope's, a Park Avenue debutante, coming-out party. It's the event of the winter and everyone is there, including the most eligible bachelor, Jimmy Wolverton. Chris Hanson, Joy's secret romance isn't. Joy knows her parents wouldn't approve of Chris being starving violinst and a son of poor immigrants. Chris being understanding allows Joy to pretend to date Jimmy to keep Joy's parents happy. But, when Chris sees Joy with Jimmy he becomes enraged. Chris confronts Joy and they argue, the fight ends in a night of passion. Joy discovers she pregnant with Chris' child. When she's about to tell Chris the news he interupts her with the news that he's taking a job in Europe with a famed Opera star. Joy decides not to tell him and let him go. While in Europe Chris learns about Joy's pregnancy, but when he returns; Chris gets the shock of his life...Joy has married Jimmy. Written by Kelly
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pre code film | debutante party | park avenue | wealthy family | new york city |Taglines:
She was launched Like a Battleship...with crowds cheering...bands playing...champagne effervescing and did she make a splash! (Print Ad- Lawrence Daily Journal-World,((Lawrence, Ks)) 2 April 1934)Genres:
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9 March 1934 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe: I do not get into trouble; I merely experience annoyances.
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Harry Gold: You've been getting into trouble, at your age, Mrs. Vanderdoe?Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe: I do not get into trouble; I merely experience annoyances.
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It's not a film version of Phillip Barry's play, HOLIDAY. That's obvious from the beginning and it suffers from a lack of sympathy for the subject of its opprobrium. The drunk looks a little like Lew Ayres, but he drinks not because he is a poet, and not because he is not a poet. He drinks because he can barely conceive of anything else.
But that's the basic idea, really. A producer said "Give me something like HOLIDAY" and this is what they came up with. Frances Dee does as much as she can, but she can't carry this movie by herself, and neither the script nor the actors seem capable of much more -- no, that's not true. Nigel Bruce, as a Scotch butler, is wonderful, and totally unlike any of his other roles. Alison Skipworth is, as usual, hilarious as Mrs. Vanderdoe, the society arbiter and adviser -- for a commission. And Harry Green, an actor I have seen in only one other movie, is excellent. But this movie, although it's clear that in another year, the genre would morph into the screwball comedy with its class warfare of the sexes, is a dull, disapproving drama.