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Gloria Swanson
Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent
Ben Lyon
Tony Blake
Monroe Owsley
Jim Woodward
Barbara Kent
Joan Trent
Arthur Lake
Buster Collins
Maude Eburne
Aunt Kate
Henry Kolker
Mr. Woodward
Nella Walker
Mrs. Woodward
Jack Byron
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Party Guest (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
James Ford
Party Guest (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
Ship's Purser (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
Baseball Captain (uncredited)
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 13 2022
Gloria Swanson only made a handful of talkies and this is probably my favourite. She still acts very much with her eyes and her lips - but in this she also does a fair degree of singing and her comic timing comes well to the fore. The story is simple fun - she is a lady who keeps her past a little secret until she discovers that her ex-beau "Jim" (Monroe Owsley) has moved onto her young sister "Joan" (Barbara Kent). The star for me, though, is the daft "Buster" (Arthur Lake), a slightly geeky, lanky young man who is enamoured of "Joan" too - and who comes up with a teeny-weeny cunning wheeze th...
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English
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Keywords
- musical
- new year's day
- sister
- novelist
- pre-code