Directed by:
Edward H. GriffithScreenplay:
Melville BakerCast:
Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett, Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Paul Lukas, Tyrone Power, Alan Mowbray, Wilfrid Lawson, J. Edward Bromberg (more)Plots(1)
Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the Budapest of the mid-1930s. Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young and Constance Bennett combine their earnings to rent a luxurious apartment, in hopes of attracting wealthy potential husbands. Young falls for a nobleman (Tyrone Power), who is engaged to another woman. She contemplates taking poison, but the lethal dose is accidentally ingested by Gaynor, whose plight results in a house call from Dr. Don Ameche, whom Gaynor has worshipped from afar. It is Bennett who snags the wealthy husband, middle-aged businessman Wilfred Lawson. Though Tyrone Power's part was small, he clicked immediately with the audiences, prompting the studio to give Power the big buildup. Ladies in Love would be reworked several times in the future, most obviously as How to Marry a Millionaire. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Janet Gaynor
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
4 Devils (1928)
Street Angel (1928)
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Constance Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Unsuspected (1947)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Topper (1937)
Simone Simon
France
Best movies:
La Ronde (1950)
La Bete humaine (1938)
Le Plaisir (1952)
Don Ameche
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Trading Places (1983)
Midnight (1939)
Paul Lukas
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
Tyrone Power
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love Is News (1937)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Alan Mowbray
UK
Best movies:
Desire (1936)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The King and I (1956)
Wilfrid Lawson
UK
Best movies:
Becket (1964)
Room at the Top (1959)
Pygmalion (1938)
J. Edward Bromberg
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Virginia Field
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Egon Brecher
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Rebecca (1940)
Kings Row (1942)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Monty Woolley
USA
Best movies:
Midnight (1939)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Three Comrades (1938)
Lynn Bari
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Paul McVey
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Alice Day
USA
John Bleifer
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Frank McLure
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Eric Mayne
Ireland
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Holiday (1938)
Hector V. Sarno
Italy
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)