Platinum Blonde (film)
- Robert Williams: Stew Smith
- Jean Harlow: Anne Schuyler
- Loretta Young: Gallagher
- Don Dillaway: Michael Schuyler
- Halliwell Hobbes: Butler Smythe
- Reginald Owen: Dexter Grayson
- Edmund Breese: Conroy
- Walter Catlett: Binji Baker
- Claude Allister: Dawson
- Naima Wilfstrand: grandmother
Before blondes is warned is an American comedy film directed by Frank Capra from the year 1931.
Action
Michael Schuyler said to have been blackmailed by a dancer who had incriminating letters about her affair with him in the hand. The press falls on Michael, who comes from a good family, here. Michael Baker can bring from the Tribune with money to silence, but Smith is incorruptible.
Smith now gets in trouble with the family of the young man. To make matters worse, he has also fallen in love with Michael's sister Anne. His colleague Gallagher gives him no chance. And yet Anne and the uncouth Smith are married after a short time. Smith also will soon be relocating into their stately home of Schuyler, with his wife tries to make him a consummate gentleman. Smith first enjoys the good life. But he can not hold back with his cynical comments, with which he pushes the fine company repeatedly on the head. Smith is comforted by Gallagher and back out arms back in Annes.
Reviews
- The filmdienst describes the film as a ' " inventively staged screwball comedy [ ... ] Partly - subtle entertainment in typical Frank Capra style. Anti- authoritarian and sophisticated, but also anti-intellectual to patriotic, holds the movie fly the flag of the individual against him a hostile environment. "
Background
- 4 days after the premiere of the film in the U.S. Robert Williams died on November 3, 1931, a ruptured appendix.
- The Germany premiere of the film took place in Germany on television on August 3, 1979.
- The film features lay in the hands of Stephen Goosson.