Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
- Candy Store Proprietor
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- Chez Louise Manager
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- Amanda
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- Diner Proprietor
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- Mrs. Blainey
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- Little Woman in Bread Line
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- Joseph--Butler
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- TriviaRobert Montgomery notes that his annual salary as an advertising executive in 1932 is $20,000, a significant amount at that time. When adjusted for inflation, his salary is equal to $324,000 in 2016.
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Mr. Ledyard: [on the telephone] But Carol, this bank is your guardian. We're living in 1932, but you persist in spending money as if it were still '29, before the crash. You've forced me to eliminate your charities - even your father's most beloved project - the Morgan Home for Girls.
Carol Morgan: [lounging on her silk sheets] Fine. I don't believe in delinquent girls - silly weaklings.
Mr. Ledyard: But our records show that twenty-nine percent of them went on the street because they didn't have a bed to sleep in.
Carol Morgan: Oh, nonsense. They've just no character. Neglect your character and you lose your self-respect. Go out into the streets and you end up in the gutter - where I might add, you jolly well deserve to end up.
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MGM provided her with Robert Montgomery as a leading man and she and he just can't get together and their backgrounds make them unsuitable for poverty. Which in 1929 both enter. She loses her millions and of course she blames mismanagement. Many people who got out of the market before the Stock Market Crash kept their fortunes, many more who thought the market would stay bullish regretted that choice. Up to a point Tallulah is right in blaming her financial advisers, but up to then she also never cared just as long as she had it to spend.
Montgomery too is affected. His advertising firm goes under and he loses his job. With both starting equal you think that they can be married now. But neither wants to live modestly, her far more than him. Like former nobility in Europe she trades in on her society name and becomes a permanent house guest for hire for a while. It's there she meets up with Hugh Herbert.
Now he's the biggest revelation in the film. Herbert was capable of so many things more than what you see in those Warner Brothers musicals and that incessant 'woo woo'. Here he's a deadly serious rake who after his wife throws Tallulah out as a party guest because she's tired of her leeching, Herbert's quite willing to make her a mistress.
White collar Montgomery also sees a more earthy side of life. MGM brings up some working class issues that you would normally find Warner Brothers doing.
Both Tallulah and Montgomery acquit themselves well in a film that should be better known and seen more.
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- Budget
- $203,420 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1