"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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21 December 1930
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop.
27 September 1930
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong.
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.
29 April 1930
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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.
12 December 1930
Bimbo becomes a long distance accordion champ and comes through with a load of credit.
30 January 1930
The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence.
07 July 1930
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit.
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.
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