The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 73% of the 231 1930s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
114 audience votes
Key crew
- Howard HawksDirector
- Ben HechtScreenplay
- Gene FowlerScreenplay
- Charles MacArthurScreenplay
- Preston SturgesWriter
Cast
- John BarrymoreOscar Jaffe
- Carole LombardLily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka
- Walter ConnollyOliver Webb
- Roscoe KarnsOwen O'Malley
- Ralph ForbesGeorge Smith
- Charles LaneMax Jacobs
- Etienne GirardotMatthew J. Clark
- Dale FullerSadie
- Edgar KennedyOscar McGonigle
- Billie SewardAnita
- Herman BingBeard #1 (uncredited)
- James BurkeSheriff (uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
stagetheater playdisguiserehearsalpre-codeprotégéhamhysterics