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It’s her life—she’ll live it the way she wants! And since she’s played by Joan Crawford at the peak of her MGM allure, she’ll live that life in a captivating array of fashions by Adrian.
Crawford plays New York socialite Kay Bentley, whose yachting getaway in the Greek isles takes an unexpected turn when she meets a handsome archeologist (Brian Aherne). She’s carefree, he’s earnest. She’s of the moneyed elite, he disdains privilege and pretense. They’re opposites who, in the Golden Era of screwball comedy, are sure to attract, collide, fuss, banter and parry…but do they marry?
How that does or doesn’t happen in part of the fun in a fizzy romp, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, that features Frank Morgan as Kay’s flustered pop. In a genre that typically finds laughs in the character of a dutiful manservant, I Live My Live offers not one but two of the screen’s best: Eric Blore and Arthur Treacher.
Original Release
10/04/1935
US Release
10/04/1935
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Crawford | Kay / Kay Bentley |
Brian Aherne | Terence 'Terry' O'Neill / Terry |
Frank Morgan | G.P. Bentley / Bentley |
Aline MacMahon | Betty Collins / Betty |
Eric Blore | Grove, Bentley's Butler / Grove |
Fred Keating | Gene Piper / Gene |
Jessie Ralph | Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother / Mrs. Gage |
Arthur Treacher | Gallup, Mrs. Gage's Butler / Gallup |
Frank Conroy | Doctor |
Etienne Girardot | Professor |
Directors
Writers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Gottfried Reinhardt, Ethel B. Borden, A. Carter Goodloe
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Crawford | Kay / Kay Bentley |
Brian Aherne | Terence 'Terry' O'Neill / Terry |
Frank Morgan | G.P. Bentley / Bentley |
Aline MacMahon | Betty Collins / Betty |
Eric Blore | Grove, Bentley's Butler / Grove |
Fred Keating | Gene Piper / Gene |
Jessie Ralph | Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother / Mrs. Gage |
Arthur Treacher | Gallup, Mrs. Gage's Butler / Gallup |
Frank Conroy | Doctor |
Etienne Girardot | Professor |
Esther Dale | Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper / Brumbaugh |
Hale Hamilton | Uncle Carl |
Hilda Vaughn | Miss Ann Morrison / Ann |
Frank Shields Sr. | Outer Office Secretary |
Sterling Holloway | Max |
Vince Barnett | Clerk |
Hedda Hopper | Alvin's Mother |
Lionel Stander | Yaffitz, Bridge Player / Yaffitz |
Tom Dugan | Lecture Hall Guard |
Adrienne D'Ambricourt | Undetermined Role |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bernard H. Hyman | Producer |