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Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone and Grady Sutton play the four sides of a romantic quadrangle in this screwball comedy co-scripted by Bella and Samuel Spewack (Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate). Gaynor portrays small-town girl Nancy Briggs, whose nebbish fiancé George (Sutton) doesn't return from his Manhattan job in time to say, "I do." So Nancy heads to the big city to hunt for her hubby-to-be and, after a series of dizzy complications, lands in the apartment of a debonair author (Montgomery), in the romantic sights of his equally debonair pal (Tone), and in the middle of a three-man boxing match when George suddenly reappears. Will Nancy ever get to the altar? And if so, with whom? Gaynor was fresh off her triumph in A Star Is Born when she made this fast-paced comedy and met its costume designer, Adrian. She soon became his bride and, at the height of her popularity, bid the movie world goodbye for almost 20 years.
Original Release
09/02/1938
US Release
09/02/1938
Cast
Name | Character |
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Janet Gaynor | Nancy Briggs |
Robert Montgomery | Malcolm 'Mal' Niles |
Franchot Tone | Robert 'Bob' Hanson |
Guy Kibbee | Pa Briggs |
Claire Dodd | Vivian Herford |
Reginald Owen | William - the Butler / William, the Butler |
Cora Witherspoon | Mrs. Herford |
Emma Dunn | Mrs. Briggs |
Charley Grapewin | Grandpa Briggs |
Lester Matthews | Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart |
Directors
Writers
Mortimer Braus, David Hertz, Lee Loeb, George Oppenheimer, Bella Spewack, Sam Spewack
Cast
Name | Character |
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Janet Gaynor | Nancy Briggs |
Robert Montgomery | Malcolm 'Mal' Niles |
Franchot Tone | Robert 'Bob' Hanson |
Guy Kibbee | Pa Briggs |
Claire Dodd | Vivian Herford |
Reginald Owen | William - the Butler / William, the Butler |
Cora Witherspoon | Mrs. Herford |
Emma Dunn | Mrs. Briggs |
Charley Grapewin | Grandpa Briggs |
Lester Matthews | Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart |
Grady Sutton | George Wilkins, Jr. |
Mary Forbes | Mrs. Hansen / Mrs. Hanson |
Grant Withers | Jack |
Bonnie Bannon | Girl at Party |
Marie Blake | Second Woman Getting Autograph |
Ralph Brooks | Nightclub Patron |
James B. Carson | Waiter |
Elise Cavanna | Third Woman on Autograph Line |
George Chandler | Jim - the Baggage Master |
Edgar Dearing | Bus Conductor |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Norman Krasna | Producer |