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Release year: 1934

Storyline

An elderly, brash drunk is hired to help improve the image of a controversial dancer, and the two women form an unlikely friendship.

Top credits

Directors

David Burton

Writers

Cast

Carole Lombard — Alabam Lee
May Robson — Patricia Patterson
Roger Pryor — Johnny Mills
Walter Connolly — Judge Daly

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Did you know

• While many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the 76-minute print available today, they were left in the cast list because of the missing nine minutes.

• Aileen Covington's debut, though she has only four uncredited roles in a career that lasted about a year, and this "debut" is an "Undetermined Role."

• 1934 was also a good year for Carole Lombard's career. After years of playing decorative roles that gave her little to do but look beautiful and wear gorgeous clothes, she was finally given the opportunity to show her comedic side in Columbia's Twentieth Century (1934). Lombard stunned audiences and critics alike who didn't think she had it in her, although in her personal life she was an extremely funny woman and had learned comedy while a teenager at the Mack Sennett Studios. Twentieth Century changed her career for the better and while still on loan-out to Columbia from her home studio Paramount, she was given another opportunity at a comedy in Lady by Choice (1934).