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Overview
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Writers:
Charles Bruce Millholland (play)
Ben Hecht (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 May 1934 (USA) more
Plot:
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career. full summary | add synopsis
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Exceptionally good screwball comedy more (39 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| John Barrymore | ... | Oscar Jaffe | |
| Carole Lombard | ... | Lily Garland | |
| Walter Connolly | ... | Oliver Webb | |
| Roscoe Karns | ... | Owen O'Malley | |
| Ralph Forbes | ... | George Smith | |
| Charles Lane | ... | Max Jacobs (as Charles Levison) | |
| Etienne Girardot | ... | Mathew J. Clark | |
| Dale Fuller | ... | Sadie | |
| Edgar Kennedy | ... | Oscar McGonigle | |
| Billie Seward | ... | Anita |
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20th Century (USA) (poster title)
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91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #4312-R, 11 May 1938 for re-release)
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Versions presently in distribution, as shown on Turner Classic Movies, bear the updated Columbia logo and title credits from the 1938 re-release. more
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Plot holes: When Jaffe takes over direction, he addresses Lily by her new name and she responds, even though she hasn't heard it before. This gap was caused by the deletion of a brief scene in which O'Malley informs her that Jaffe has changed her name. more
Quotes:
Owen O'Malley:
He's going to end up in the breadline unless he finds out that these jittery horse operas with a lot of people staggering around in foul iron suits ain't entertainment.
Oliver Webb:
Where did you leave Jaffe?
Owen O'Malley:
At the Morrison Hotel under the name of Hemingway, which he's adopted in his grief.
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Referenced in "Jeopardy!: (#22.65)" (2005) more
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Happy Days Are Here Again more
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Funny and intelligent comedy features a brilliant performance by Barrymore, spoofing his earlier "Svengali" role. He looks and acts a lot like Peter Sellars would in later similar performances; now morose, then practically jumping with energy. Lombard also turns in a right-on performance.
Here is a film where Hawks really finds his mark, because the comedic action is perfectly timed, flows nicely, and feels natural, and even includes some early Hawks "overlapping dialogue".
Hardly a dull moment, miles above its peers.