Illicit. Big business girl. Beauty and the boss. Strange love of Molly Louvain. They call it sin. Havana widows. I've got your number.
Notes:
Title from container. Big business girl based on the College humor story, by Patricia Reilly & H.N. Swanson; Beauty and the boss based on the play Church mouse, by Ladislaus Fodor; Strange love of Molly Louvain based on the play Tinsel girl, by Maurine Watkins; They call it sin based on a novel, by Alberta Stedman Eagan; and I've got your number based on a story, by William Rankin. Originally produced as seven individual motion pictures between 1931 and 1934. "ML105157"--Disc labels and container. Issued in box. Illicit: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead, Charles Butterworth, Joan Blondell, Claude Gillingwater. Big business girl: Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortes, Joan Blondell, Frank Darion, Dorothy Christy, Oscar Apfel, Nancy Dover, Mickey Bennett. Beauty and the boss: Marian Marsh, David Manner, Warren William, Charles Butterworth, Frederick Kerr, Mary Doran, Robert Grieg. Strange love of Molly Louvain: Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell, Guy Kibbee, Leslie Fenton, Frank McHugh, Evalyn Knapp, Charles Middleton, Mary Doran, Thomas Jackson, C. Henry Gordon. They call it sin: Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel, David Manners, Helen Vinson, Louis Calhern. Havana widows: Joan Blondell, Glenda Garrell, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Lyle Talbot, Frank McHugh. I've got your number: Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins, Glenda Farrell, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Westcott, Henry O'Neill.
Contents:
Sides 1-2. Illicit (1931, ca. 80 min.) / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corporation present; by Edith Fitzgerald & Robert Riskin; directed by Archie Mayo; screen adaptation by Harvey Thew -- sides 2-3. Big business girl (1931, ca. 73 min.) / First National Pictures present; a William A. Seiter production; screen adaptation by Robert Lord -- sides 3-4. Beauty and the Boss (1932, ca. 65 min.) / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present; directed by Roy Del Ruth; adaptation by Joseph Jackson -- sides 5-6. The strange love of Molly Louvain (1932, ca. 73 min,) / First National Pictures present; directed by Michael Curtiz; adaptation by Erwin Hayward & Brown Holmes -- sides 6-7. They call it sin (1932, ca. 69 min.) / First National Pictures present; directed by Thornton Freeland; screen play by Lillie Hayward & Howard Green -- sides 7-8. Havana widows (1933, ca. 62 min.) / First National Pictures present; directed by Ray Enright; screen play by Earl Baldwin -- sides 8-9. I've got your number (1934, ca. 69 min.) / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corp. present; directed by Ray Enright; screen play by Warren Duff & Sidney Sutherland.
Summary:
A collection of seven films made before the Hays Office and the Motion Picture Production Code were in full force, spotlighting Hollywood's embrace of that period's looser morals and anything goes attitudes. This release includes theatrical trailers for Illicit, Big business girl, Beauty and the Boss, and Havana Widows.
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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