(79 mins.) Released 1930-04-19
Director: Monta Bell
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles
Comedy | Musical | Romance | Sport
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021568/
originally posted 26 Oct 2017
Claudette Colbert 4th film, she's 1st billed; Ginger's FIRST, and she's 3rd billed before Charles Ruggles (Norman Foster is 2nd; he has 46 acting credits and began directing in '36, with 38 credits, 1 posthumous).
Nice drama, NOT a musical, despite IMDb genre, hence the "{nm}" in the title of this post. Colbert is highly effective as a sincere reporter trying to make her marriage work. Foster is playing an insensitive alcoholic(maybe), and he's effective too. Ruggles is the wise pal of the husband, Rogers plays an underage teen trying (and sometimes succeeding) in pulling the husband away from home. There's a definite anti-prohibition bent here, since someone gets serious alcohol poisoning from a single bottle, and the feminist angle with both spouses working, and she earns more than he.
Watched here; not a good print, but good enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0EV2X6osa0
Tempting to rate this a 7 for the historic value of the social issues.
Paramount, dir. Bell; 7-
