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A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.
Hazel Howell
- Girl at the Bridal Shower
- (uncredited)
Lucille Ward
- Susan - Anne's Maid
- (uncredited)
Barbara Weeks
- Girl at the Bridal Shower
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaOn the phone, Dick and Anne tease Duckie that they can't agree on which vacuum cleaner to buy, a Peerless or a General Electric. The joke here appears to be that Peerless was an old maker of hand-pump vacuums, never electric ones.
- Goofs(at around 5 mins) As Dick and Anne are walking out of the kitchen, a moving shadow of the boom microphone is visible on the wall to the left.
- Quotes
Richard 'Dick' Ives II: Dad, what would you do with a girl like that?
Richard Ives Sr.: I'd grab her any way she'd have me.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen: The Temptations of Eve (1996)
- SoundtracksMaybe It's Love
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by George W. Meyer
Lyrics by Sidney D. Mitchell and Archie Gottler
Whistled by James Rennie
Hummed and sung by Barbara Stanwyck
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In 1931, Stanwyck was still a young girl, with her LONG hair, child-like innocent manner, and round kid face. As Anne Vincent, she wants to stay single and happy, while her beau Dick (James Rennie) wants to get married. Along for fun is Charles Butterworth as George, Dick's sidekick. He tells the couple that they have been discovered, and totters off, for more drinks... Ricardo Cortez is also here as the ex-boyfriend Baines to stir things up; Stanwyck and Cortez had worked together on three films together in the 1930s. Look for a 25 year old Joan Blondell as Helen Childers, Anne's friend, in one of her early roles. Will things stay the same if they get married? That's the big question. Kind of a statement of the times, and even more so in a couple years when the production code will keep everything on the up and up, even when they aren't. This was Darryl Zanuck's 12th film as producer. Towards the middle of the version shown on Turner Classics, there are scratches or wear marks on the right side of the screen, not surprising for such an old film. Interesting to watch, but no big surprises.
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- $249,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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