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Director:
Writers:
Preston Sturges (play)
Gladys Lehman (screenplay)
Release Date:
26 December 1931 (USA) more
Plot:
A womanizing singer falls for an old-fashioned Southern belle. The problem is, she already has a fiance. full summary | add synopsis
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Amusing and sophisticated -- Preston Sturges' first big hit. more (3 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Paul Lukas | ... | Count Gus Di Ruvo |
| Sidney Fox | ... | Isabelle Perry |
| Lewis Stone | ... | Judge Dempsey |
| George Meeker | ... | Henry Greene |
| William Ricciardi | ... | Tomasso Antiovi |
| Sidney Toler | ... | Patrolman Mulligan |
| Carlo Schipa | ... | Waiter |
| Samuel Bonello | ... | Waiter |
| Natalie Moorhead | ... | Lilli (scenes deleted) |
| Joe Torillo | ... | Cook |
| Joseph W. Girard | ... | Officer |
| Aldo Franchetti | ... | Arguing Customer |
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91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)
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Universal paid $125,000 for the rights to the play, the highest amount for a literary property ever paid at the time (tied with RKO's purchase of the rights to Cimarron (1931)). more
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References The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) more
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It Happened in Monterey more
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A near-verbatim filming of Preston Sturges' 1929 Broadway hit, this is a surprisingly assured and technically polished film for one made just a couple of years into the sound era. Paul Lukas is a perfect Gus, and Sidney Fox makes a wonderfully sexy southern minx. Lewis Stone's turn as a (somewhat) drunken Judge is particularly fun for those who know him mainly as that paragon of sobriety, Judge Hardy. Though it lacks the genius of Surges' self-directed screenplays, this one is charming and human, and a must for the serious Sturges fan -- though it's not easy to find (I saw a rare screening last fall at the L.A. County Museum of Art).