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Alice Brady
Description
This madcap, romantic romp is one of the finest screwball comedies of them all. Carole Lonbard is a party girl who finds a tramp during a society scavenger hunt and hires him as a butler for her wacky family...never knowiwng that he is richer than she is! William Powell is the very model of sophisticated comedy as the 'butler' who teaches them that money isn't everything.
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The gay divorcee: Oscar-winner The Continental revels in precision-dance joy, Cole Porter's Night and Day sways with timeless grace, and Fred and Ginger's first top billing sets the tone for more film hits to come. Top hat: Dale Tremont confuses showman Jerry Travers with another man, and is alternately charmed and disgusted by his advances, because she thinks he's married. Shall we dance: A George and Ira Gershwin score has Fred tapping to Slap That...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"It's summer season at New England's Wentworth Plaza Hotel. And that means it's time for the rich to come out to play--and for gold diggers of every persuasion to try to reel in a sucker or two. Dick Powell heads the cast of this musical romp, playing a desk clerk who agrees to be a gentlemanly escort for the sheltered daughter (Gloria Stuart) of a wealthy widow"--Container.
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