Summaries

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

Reporter Gallagher loves reporter Smith who marries Ann. He's soon bored being married to a socialite and asks Gallagher to help him write a play. She arrives with a bunch of reporters and the mansion turns into a party. Ann arrives and orders them out and Smith goes with them.—Ed Stephan <[email protected]>

Reporter 'Stew' Smith meets beautiful Ann Schuyler, a rich socialite, while covering the story of a scandal involving Ann's family. Ann takes a liking to the wisecracking Smith and the couple eventually elope. Stew's roots as a street smart reporter don't prepare him well for mixing with Ann's high society friends and he starts spending more time with his 'pal', female reporter Gallagher. Everything comes to a head when Ann and her family return home to their mansion one evening and find that Stew has invited all his 'pals' over for an impromptu drinking party.—Gary Jackson <[email protected]>

Anything that the wealthy Schuyler family does is considered newsworthy. So when a possible scandal erupts within the family, sarcastic reporter Stew Smith is among those clamoring to break the story. But against the odds, Stew and the Schuylers' daughter Anne fall in love and marry. But once married, will Stew be able to fit within the stuffy Schuyler lifestyle, including being part of the newsworthy family? And will Ann be freewheeling enough to hang out with Stew's friends? Most of Ann's family don't like the fact of Stew, and most of Stew's colleagues think Stew is now a kept man. But the one person who keeps her thoughts to herself is Stew's best reporter pal, Gallagher, who secretly loves her colleague.—Huggo

Details

Keywords
  • blonde
  • family relationships
  • screwball comedy
  • wealth
  • romantic comedy
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Romance
Release date Oct 30, 1931
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Columbia Pictures

Box office

Budget $600000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 29m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

Reporter is platonic friends with a colleague girl reporter who secretly loves him. Covering a breach of promise story, he meets the young and wealthy socialite Ann Schuyler, who is rather wild in contrast to her conservative family. Despite/ because he covers the story despite her family's attempted bribery and her pleas and because he obtains and returns the love letters she sent to her ex-beau without payment, they fall in love and secretly marry. He is insistent that he won't be a kept husband but, despite his colleagues' jeers, his wife increasingly sucks him into her leisured lifestyle. In reality, he can't fit into her social set and she can't fit into his. It all blows up when he denounces her friends' worthless lives and refuses to go to a party with her. In her absence, her invites some friends round, who turn the mansion into a free for all. On her return, she protests 'It's my house', he walks out and, refusing alimony, marries his lovelorn reporter colleague, who has been around all along.

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