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Ladies in Love

  • 1936
  • Approved
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
523
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Don Ameche, Constance Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Simone Simon, and Loretta Young in Ladies in Love (1936)
ComedyRomance

Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another ... Read allThree working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a busine... Read allThree working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a businessman. The first girl gets a shop of her own.

  • Director
    • Edward H. Griffith
  • Writers
    • Melville Baker
    • Leslie Bush-Fekete
    • Charles Kenyon
  • Stars
    • Janet Gaynor
    • Loretta Young
    • Constance Bennett
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    523
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Edward H. Griffith
    • Writers
      • Melville Baker
      • Leslie Bush-Fekete
      • Charles Kenyon
    • Stars
      • Janet Gaynor
      • Loretta Young
      • Constance Bennett
    • 14User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor
    • Martha Kerenye
    Loretta Young
    Loretta Young
    • Susie Schmidt
    Constance Bennett
    Constance Bennett
    • Yoli Haydn
    Simone Simon
    Simone Simon
    • Marie Armand
    Don Ameche
    Don Ameche
    • Dr. Rudi Imre
    Paul Lukas
    Paul Lukas
    • John Barta
    Tyrone Power
    Tyrone Power
    • Karl Lanyi
    • (as Tyrone Power Jr.)
    Alan Mowbray
    Alan Mowbray
    • Paul Sandor
    Wilfrid Lawson
    Wilfrid Lawson
    • Ben Horvath
    J. Edward Bromberg
    J. Edward Bromberg
    • Franz Brenner
    Virginia Field
    Virginia Field
    • Countess Helena
    Frank Dawson
    Frank Dawson
    • Johann
    Egon Brecher
    • Concierge
    Vesey O'Davoren
    • Fritz
    John Bleifer
    John Bleifer
    • Porter
    Eleanor Wesselhoeft
    • Charwoman
    Lynn Bari
    Lynn Bari
    • Dress Shop Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    William Brisbane
    William Brisbane
    • Chauffeur
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Edward H. Griffith
    • Writers
      • Melville Baker
      • Leslie Bush-Fekete
      • Charles Kenyon
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    User reviews14

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    5rfkeser

    Effective star showcase but uneven comedy/drama

    An early example of Darryl Zanuck's favorite formula: three young ladies share an apartment [see THREE BLIND MICE, MOON OVER MIAMI, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING]. This time the setting for their various romantic difficulties is Budapest. Squeaky-voiced Janet Gaynor gets top billing as a poor girl who hawks neckties on streetcorners but also feeds rabbits for young doctor Don Ameche and still has time to perform valet duty for self-absorbed magician Alan Mowbray. Over-eager Loretta Young, on the other hand, obsesses over wealthy nobleman Tyrone Power. As a sophisticated gold-digger, Constance Bennett has the best role, allowing her to underplay effectively. Her plot thread involves an affair with wealthy Paul Lukas, complicated by the unexpected arrival of Simone Simon [who is introduced as a nymphet in a sailor suit]. With all these comic/romantic/tragic ingredients [poison is also involved], this stew is not completely digestible. However, despite awkward shifts in tone and rather flat lighting, it remains interesting as a showcase for a variety of film personalities, some on the rise and some not. Ironically, the most striking performance comes from a subsidiary character: Wilfrid Lawson, who implies an entire world of sophistication in his few scenes as an aging playboy.
    icknay

    Hollywood gloss but not Hollywood feel

    Just an addition to other comments; this film while definitely Hollywood has a European feel to it. There is a definite desperate,cynical air to it that would make you think it's director was a continental director transplanted to the US. I checked and Griffith is from Virginia. However, he was educated in Europe-this of course proves nothing but maybe he was influenced by familiarity with European film. Anyway this "feel" I get from the film makes it more interesting to me. But whatever it is worth seeing just for the great cast!
    7tonypatti

    Unexpected and Fresh

    Star-studded cast with three complete story lines make this tiny gem a fast-paced and absorbing flick. Bennett commands all her scenes with her trademarked regal assurance, Young does her gushing little girl routine, with one quick quip about being independent of men at the beginning, almost as if there was a coded assumption that she was a feminist at heart who had to be proved wrong by the overwhelming righteousness of patriarchal adherence to the masculine preferences inherent in the typical happy ending. Gaynor does her variation on Young's innocent routine, only mixing in the eager submissiveness of the thoroughly indoctrinated practitioner of standard femininity.

    The stories are set in Budapest, harnessed together by one of old Hollywood's most beloved artifices, the "three girls rooming together in poverty searching for husbands" plot. We are instantly thrown into the three romantic story lines, with the astonishing economy of old Hollywood that I fervently wish were still practiced today.

    Bennett is engaged in a open, sensible affair with Paul Lukas, and is showily worldly and cynical, while using subtle cues to clue us into the real state of her heart. Young has a storybook romance going with a young nobleman, played by the preternaturally handsome Power, who could have used a bit more screen time, or so many of us might wish. Gaynor is in love with a irascible, jealous control freak doctor, Ameche, but is discharged by him when she starts to work for the pompous, self-centered Alan Mowbray, who is a conceited magician and who does a wonderful character turn in the typically delightful Mowbray style, which is to say, as gay as pink ink on scented paper.

    I expected absolute fidelity to the standard Hollywood tropes and was pleasantly surprised to find the ending quite mixed. Young and Bennett reprise Young's comments about independence after being properly chastened by the absolute freedom enjoyed by the men in their lives, and Lukas is boldly tempted away from Bennett's side by Simon, playing a French schoolgirl who steals every scene she is in with her precocious grasp of the values of sexual audacity. There is a priceless moment, after she gets him to kiss her, a lingering kiss fraught with expectation and lacking in any visible restraint, where she looks at him in delight and barks a little laugh of knowing disdain and triumphant glee. Excellently put together and directed with great timing and sensitive performances, this film greatly exceeded my modest expectations.
    8costellorp

    Excellent underrated triple romance

    My husband and I watched this movie last night and really enjoyed it. The plot was intriguing and the acting was surprisingly superb, especially Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Alan Mowbray as the magician. These three actors aren't as well known to modern audiences as Loretta Young, Tyrone Power and Paul Lukas; however, their performances in this film carry the film and give much greater depth and subtlety to the movie.

    We couldn't believe we had never heard of this movie before. I've read some of the more negative reviews on this website, and I don't agree with them. I recommend that you give this movie a try. It is most definitely NOT a screwball comedy or lightweight film like "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire." One reviewer mentioned the "European" feel of the film. It is set in Budapest, Hungary and it is true to the mores of the place and time. An excellent movie! If for no other reason, please watch it so that you can better appreciate Alan Mowbray, who is so underused in "My Man Godfrey" and is not remembered much for his great supporting role as the butler in "Merrily We Live."
    Michael_Elliott

    Great Cast, Bad Story

    Ladies in Love (1936)

    ** (out of 4)

    Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett, Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Paul Lukas and Tyrone Power highlight this all-star cast but the final film doesn't do any of them justice. Set in Budapest, three women (Gaynor, Young, Bennett) move into an apartment and soon we see them struggle with love and work issues. The cast here is extremely good but the screenplay is extremely poor. It's clear Fox wanted to throw all their stars in the pot but it's too bad they didn't bother coming up with a better screenplay. The movie is pretty much all dialogue and there's way too much of it and none of it comes off too interesting. The actors all do fine work on their own but the screenplay doesn't give them too much to do and the relationships never come off believable. Gaynor steals the film as a poor girl who sells ties trying to make ends meet. Ameche is also very good as the doctor who doesn't realize he's in love with Gaynor's character.

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    • Trivia
      The film features 4 Oscar winners: Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Paul Lukas and Don Ameche.
    • Goofs
      Frank Dawson is credited onscreen as "Johann," but he is called "Josef" in the film.
    • Quotes

      Susie Schmidt: [on dropping her plant] Oh, and I raised that thing from a twig!

      Yoli Haydn: It's perfectly all right. All it needs is a new pot.

    • Connections
      Featured in Tyrone Power: Prince of Fox (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Kunstlerleben (Artist's Life), Op.316
      (1867) (uncredited)

      Written by Johann Strauss

      In the score often

      Played as dance music twice

      Played also on a record

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    • Release date
      • October 9, 1936 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Jóvenes enamoradas
    • Filming locations
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 37m(97 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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