A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.
Renee Godfrey
- Carol West
- (as Renee Haal)
Jimmy Aubrey
- Johnny's Band Member
- (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
- Quentin
- (uncredited)
Lee Bonnell
- French-Speaking Waiter
- (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Jack Briggs
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
- Colony Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
- Muriel
- (uncredited)
Ken Christy
- Editor
- (uncredited)
Rosemary Coleman
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
- Flutist in Johnny's Band
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaSeveral actors are listed in studio records as being in the film, but are not seen: Thurston Hall (Jerry Carter), Virginia Engels (Mrs. Carter), Virginia Vale (Telephone Girl), Jane Woodworth (Telephone Girl), Ken Christy (Editor), and Richard Carle.
- GoofsOn the ground at the airport, Kerrigan's plane is a Douglas DC-3/DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport - note the upper row of small windows). But, depicted flying, the model used is a Boeing 247. Also note the plane on the ground is unpainted bare metal silver and the flying model is painted, and with different insignia on the rear fuselage.
- Quotes
Seton Mansley aka Alfred Crane: Suddenly, it had come to me that I was the only one out of 28,000 guys who wasn't allowed to come home every night at six o'clock and smoke his slippers, and read his dinner, and eat his pipe.
- SoundtracksHappy Days Are Here Again
(1929) (uncredited)
Music by and Milton Ager
Lyrics by Jack Yellen
Played by Johnny's band and sung by Clyde Cook
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Coburn -- Who needs More?
Charles Coburn takes the title role of this trifle of a romantic comedy and, with the exception of good supporting roles by Ernest Truex and Russell Gleason is the whole show. Certainly, James Craig and Anne Shirley as the juveniles, go through their roles competently, but there isn't much to them.
Charles Coburn: a fat, swag-bellied, slow moving con man, vaguely contemptuous of everyone, had a long career in Hollywood, peaking in the early 1940s in pieces like THE LADY EVE and THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES (both produced in the same year as this picture) and THE MORE THE MERRIER, which this resembles in story structure. His presence makes this movie worthwhile.
Charles Coburn: a fat, swag-bellied, slow moving con man, vaguely contemptuous of everyone, had a long career in Hollywood, peaking in the early 1940s in pieces like THE LADY EVE and THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES (both produced in the same year as this picture) and THE MORE THE MERRIER, which this resembles in story structure. His presence makes this movie worthwhile.
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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