Directed by:
Lloyd BaconCinematography:
Sol PolitoComposer:
Ray HeindorfCast:
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran, Ronald Reagan, Penny Singleton, Dennie Moore, James Stephenson, John Ridgely (more)Plots(1)
Robert Law and J. C. Benson, two Hollywood screenwriters, are assigned to write a story for cowboy star, Larry Toms, but nothing they write pleases producer C. Elliott Friday. While they argue, Susie, a divorced waitress, delivers lunch. Inspired by her pregnancy, Benson and Law suggest they do a western in which Larry finds a lone baby in a variation on the classic Hollywood story: Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Gets Girl. Larry protests, but the producer likes the idea, and they all rush from the room to take the idea to the top, leaving Susie alone. Rodney Bevan, an English actor, arrives to wait for Friday's return. He and Susie talk and flirt a little, but the conversation ends when the writers return. Benson and Law suggest that they sign Susie's soon-to-be-born baby, Happy, to a contract, which will place them, as his godfathers, in control. Happy's success allows Susie to attend high school, her secret ambition. Because of Happy's popularity, Larry's agent encourages him to marry Susie, but Law breaks up their engagement by having Rodney claim to be Happy's father. Back at the studio, Susie announces that Happy has come down with the measles and, as they soon find out, has given them to Larry. While they recover, Benson, Law and Happy are all fired. Benson and Law scheme successfully to get Friday to re-sign Happy and fire Larry. Then Rodney bursts into Friday's office to ask Susie to marry him. She refuses at first, because of her bad luck with her first marriage, but finally she agrees. Friday is furious because Rodney, the son of an English lord, wants to take Happy to England, but when he learns that his own wife is pregnant, he realizes that Happy's replacement is on the way. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
James Cagney
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
One, Two, Three (1961)
White Heat (1949)
Pat O'Brien
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Marie Wilson
USA
Best movies:
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Ralph Bellamy
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Trading Places (1983)
One Man Mutiny (1955)
Frank McHugh
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Dodge City (1939)
Dick Foran
USA
Best movies:
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Black Legion (1937)
Fort Apache (1948)
Ronald Reagan
USA
Best movies:
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Penny Singleton
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Best Man (1964)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Dennie Moore
USA
Best movies:
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James Stephenson
UK
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Beau Geste (1939)
The Letter (1940)
John Ridgely
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
John Harron
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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Carole Landis
USA
Best movies:
A Day at the Races (1937)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Pierre Watkin
USA
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Song of Love (1947)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Curt Bois
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The Oyster Princess (1919)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Dorothy Vaughan
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Peggy Moran
USA
Best movies:
Ninotchka (1939)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Hal K. Dawson
USA
Best movies:
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Rosella Towne
USA
Best movies:
Dark Victory (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Otto Fries
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)