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Director:
Writers:
Harry Chandlee (story) and
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Release Date:
31 October 1931 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
She Was Gorgeous - He Was A Man . . . So, the other girl had to wait !
Plot:
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change. full summary | full synopsis
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Nice, bristling romantic comedy more (36 total)
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Cast

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Loretta Young ... Gallagher
Robert Williams ... Stew Smith

Jean Harlow ... Anne Schuyler
Halliwell Hobbes ... Smythe, The Butler
Reginald Owen ... Dexter Grayson
Edmund Breese ... Conroy, The Editor
Don Dillaway ... Michael Schuyler (as Donald Dillaway)
Walter Catlett ... Binji Baker
Claud Allister ... Dawson, The Valet
Louise Closser Hale ... Mrs. Schuyler
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Gallagher (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
During its 1950 reissue it was double-billed with "Gilda." more
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Continuity: When Stew Smith is married, his colleagues make fun of him in the press room. At that moment his wife calls and he walks over to the phone with his pipe in his mouth. However, when he picks up the phone, the pipe disappears. more
Quotes:
Binji Baker: No use you you hanging around here. Just buy a copy of the Tribune, read it over, then make a rewrite... you can use it for your last edition.
Stew Smith: It'll never make the last edition. It'll take me four hours to translate your story into English.
Binji Baker: Oh, is that so?
Stew Smith: I'm afraid. Take your hat off, might make an impression.
[Baker takes off hat]
Stew Smith: Impossible. Put it on again.
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Nice, bristling romantic comedy, 19 September 2001
Author: Glenn Andreiev (gandreiev@aol.com) from Huntington, NY

PLATINUM BLONDE marks the start of three careers- First, Frank Capra. He has a natural style of handling actors. There is scene where lovebirds Jean Harlow and Robert Williams mock sing-song to each other. It feels improvised, very natural, unlike the stage learned dialog that infested early talkies. He's experimental with camera angles, and playing with sound (One scene is filmed by a crackling fountain) and he keeps the pace and dialog delivery going at rocket pace. Then you have Jean Harlow. Wow, do you have Jean Harlow! Not only is she stunningly beautiful (even when photographed from behind) but she has a cool, likable wit (She suppose to be a society dame, but she makes the character so likable, you just want to hang around). Thirdly, you have Robert Williams, who was just starting to make a name for himself with this 1931 film. Sadly, this bristling talent died later that year of appendicitis. He's wonderfully energetic, quirky and full of speed (He's so wonderfully jumpy when he feels enclosed in a stuffy mansion you'd think he has Starbucks running through his viens.) PLATINUM BLONDE seems to be dress rehersal for the film Capra would make five years later- MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (My favorite Capra film) Williams (Like Gary Cooper) is labeled "Cinderella Man", he loves yodelling and getting the servants to yodel in his newfound mansion home. Catch this film if you can.

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