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...Donald Russell Norma Dietz, Newton Elliott C. Lasser Phyllis Adler, Lafayette J. Drennan Lowell Martha Gallison, Brimmer-May John F. Otto, Jr. Virginia Lee Holt, Cincinnati, Ohio William P. Palmer Patricia Crehore, Radcliffe Arthur H. Phelan Mary Alexander, Mt. Holyoke Walter H. Pistole, Jr. Sydney McKenna, Radcliffe Jerome Preston, Jr. Lloyd Fursman, Beaver Albert M. Rockwood Marion Prentice, Wellesley George A. Saxton, Jr. Phyllis Hanson, Skidmore Robert S. Smith Florence Scott, Long Island, N. Y. Robert S. Sturgis Sarah Abbot, Winsor Arthur S. Tarlow Stella Levi, Wellesley Richard B. Tucker Marjorie Davis, Wheaton LIONEL HALL Theodore S. Baer Dorothy Smith...
...casting, the film lends itself to an unfortunate study in contrast. For though Loretta Young may be the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, Robert Preston certainly rates as one of the most repulsive of box-office gorillas. As a naive Quaker schoolmarm from back East, Miss Young artfully rouses the respectable citizens of her infant boomtown against the skullduggery of Boss Edward Arnold; while Preston, his number one yes-man, stumbles haplessly through the routine of love and reformation...
...comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns the clash between the wits of a female card shark and the charm of a clumsy ophiologist. Enough said...
...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...
Henry H. Bame, Peter P. Grey (Captain), Marshall Hughes, Wallace McDonald, Edward B. Stevens, Jerome Preston, Jr. (Manager...