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1hr 10min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1932
Director:
William Beaudine
Starring:
Stuart Erwin, Joan Blondell, ZaSu Pitts  ...more
Synopsis: Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the real star is of course Stuart Erwin as the irrepressible grocery clerk Merton Gill. Paramount screenwriters Saul Mintz, Walter De Leon and Arthur Kober based their witty scenario on Henry Leon Wilson's 1922 novel Merton of the Movies, the 1923 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, and the 1924 Famous Players silent version starring Glenn Hunter. By 1932, the ... Full Synopsis
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Janiss Garza, AMG Review
Everything worked in this charming comedy-drama which, surprisingly, was directed by William Beaudine, a notorious hack whose nickname, "One-Shot," was usually well-deserved. Here, Beaudine managed to elicit a fine performance from Stuart Erwin, an actor whose hayseed personality all too often became grating. Blondell, too, was never better and Sam Hardy, usually cast as nasty gangsters, enjoyed a ... Full Review
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Stuart Erwin
Merton Gill
Joan Blondell
"Flips" Montague
ZaSu Pitts
Mrs. Scudder
Ben Turpin
Ben
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