A Night at the Ritz

Name: A Night at the Ritz
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1935-03-23
Duration: 1 h 2 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: William Gargan, Patricia Ellis, Allen Jenkins

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

120

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Patricia Ellis, William Gargan, and Erik Rhodes in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Comedy

Duke Regan is the high-pressure, irresponsible promotions/marketing/press agent at the Ritz Hotel. He gets the taste of the home cooking, done by the mother of Marcia Jaynos, but thinks it w... Read allDuke Regan is the high-pressure, irresponsible promotions/marketing/press agent at the Ritz Hotel. He gets the taste of the home cooking, done by the mother of Marcia Jaynos, but thinks it was done by her brother, Leopold. Leopold has delusions of being a great chef, and the abil... Read allDuke Regan is the high-pressure, irresponsible promotions/marketing/press agent at the Ritz Hotel. He gets the taste of the home cooking, done by the mother of Marcia Jaynos, but thinks it was done by her brother, Leopold. Leopold has delusions of being a great chef, and the ability to delude Duke into the same, even to the point of selling him to the Ritz as a famous... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

120

YOUR RATING

Director
- William C. McGann
Writers
- Albert J. Cohen(story & screenplay)
- Robert T. Shannon(story & screenplay)
- Manuel Seff(additional dialogue)
Stars

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Patricia Ellis and William Gargan in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Patricia Ellis, William Gargan, Erik Rhodes, Bodil Rosing, and Dorothy Tree in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Allen Jenkins in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Berton Churchill, William B. Davidson, William Gargan, Allen Jenkins, Dorothy Tree, and Gordon Westcott in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

William Gargan, Allen Jenkins, and Gordon Westcott in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Patricia Ellis in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Patricia Ellis, William Gargan, Paul Porcasi, Erik Rhodes, and Bodil Rosing in A Night at the Ritz (1935)

Trivia
The $200 that Duke gets for 2 weeks' salary would be equivalent to $3,888 in 2021.

Quotes
Café Cook: [as Leopold is just showing up for work] About time you showed up.
Leopold Jaynos: Punctuality, my friend, was invented for slaves.

Soundtracks
Let It Be Me
(uncredited)
Music by Allie Wrubel
Played during the opening credits and at the end

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Predictable But Fun

Wisecracking William Gargan wangles an invite to a pretty girl's home for dinner. He hits on the brilliant scheme of making her brother a culinary star.

(Such stardom was probably a far less common event in the 1930s than it is now. In Europe, not to mention in the little old USA.) We can pretty much guess what problems will ensure. The brother, played very amusingly by Erik Rhodes, maybe is not such a great cook ....

Still, it has a great supporting cast. The script is definitely not polished as it would be for a major movie. But it's clever and holds our attention.

Things end happily but, for some of the characters, disappointingly.

Things end happily but, for some of the characters, disappointingly.

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