"What a Cast and Story - Crammed With Drama -- Songs -- Girls -- Hatred. And How Dorothy Does That Hula-Hula -- Oh Boy!" 21 September 1930 Drama, Crime, Music 69 mins
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
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Dorothy Mackaill as Louanne
Frank Fay as Wally Dean
Noah Beery as Miguel Parada
Daphne Pollard as Mame Avery
James Murray as Connie Lamont
Frank McHugh as Fish
Inez Courtney as Peggy North
Tom Dugan as Tom Avery
Philip Strange as Emerson Fairchild
Edmund Breese as Franklin Harris
Edward Nugent as Windy Jones
Louise Beavers as Angela
John Carradine as Newspaper reporter / photographer
Virginia Sale as Newspaper reporter
Michael Curtiz Director
Humphrey Pearson Screenplay
Henry McCarty Screenplay
Robert North Associate Producer
Lee Garmes Director of Photography
Charles Schoenbaum Director of Photography
Harold Young Editor
Anton Grot Art Direction
Edward Stevenson Costume Design
George Groves Sound
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United States 21 September 1930
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Oswald of the 1920's.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1930:
03 May 1930
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian.
13 July 1930
Estrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors.
13 February 1930
The wealthy Rodney Langford, who dreams of going on the stage, hopes to fulfil his ambitions by buying a failing revue called 'Raise the Roof', starring Maisie Grey.
05 February 1930
The carpenter Franz Aigner, a kind-hearted but strong and irascible fellow, has beaten a man to death in an argument and is sentenced to prison with a three-year suspended sentence.
22 May 1930
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British)
30 September 1930
The permanent lack of money is giving Kibis a real headache. The rent has been overdue for seven months and now he is threatened with eviction.
18 November 1930
"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him.
29 January 1930
This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
01 December 1930
Two bored couples think they can find happiness if they exchange spouses for the evening.
05 September 1930
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
14 December 1930
A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who cannot leave his mother", a piano player who keeps chugging beer, and Oswald and his peg-leg buddy (probably Peg-Leg Pete who eventually became Mickey's nemesis) saying in unison "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the rabbit getting the better of this buddy after he keeps hitting him.
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