"A SLAP HAPPY COMEDY OF YOUNG LOVE!" 20 September 1940 Drama, Comedy 75 mins
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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Joan Blondell as Geraldine Brokaw
Dick Powell as Alan MacNally
Harry Davenport as Grandpa Brokaw
Conrad Nagel as David Holland Sr.
Gloria Dickson as Wanda Holland
Frank Fay as Jeff Gilman
Louise Beavers as Celestine
Jessie Ralph as Grandma Brokaw
Dorothy Burgess as Peppy Gilman
Sidney Blackmer as Erskine Brandon
Mickey Kuhn as David Holland Jr.
Harry Hayden as Buell
Roscoe Ates as Process Server
Byron Foulger as Secretary
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Porter
Bess Flowers as Helen Lakewood
Ralph Murphy Director
Ted Tetzlaff Director of Photography
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Ernst Fegté Art Direction
Frank Butler Screenplay
George M. Arthur Producer
United States 20 September 1940
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