Small towns and everybody in your business is the subject of "Hot Saturday," from 1932.
Cary Grant, though in a supporting role, stars in this Paramount film with the adorable Nancy Carroll. Grant was getting the star build-up at the time and had not yet become his "Cary Grant" persona. Having seen a lot of early Grant films, I'd say he was heavier early on and I personally think his nose was different. Just an observation.
Nancy Carroll plays bank clerk Ruth Brock, who is pretty and popular. She's engaged to tall, handsome Randolph Scott. I wouldn't cheat on him either.
When she rejects one of her coworkers, Ed, he starts gossip about her and a notorious playboy (Grant), when all that happened was that she ran away from him and into the woods, and Grant offered her a ride home.
They live in a small town where if you have a funeral with a closed casket, it's assumed to be suicide. So the ramifications for Ruth are bad. She loses her job, for one thing, her mother turns against her, and it gets worse!
Good film and a good example of the mores of the day, and I think there is still a double standard for men's and women's behavior in some areas and among some groups.
Carroll was a real bright light whose looks reminded me of Claudette Colbert's. She made a highly successful transition into talkies and was an enormous star at Paramount throughout the 1930s. She retired in 1938 and eleven years later, began to work in television, and later, returned to her stage roots. She died of an aneurysm in her hotel room during a run of "Never Too Late."
Worth seeing for the leads.
Cary Grant, though in a supporting role, stars in this Paramount film with the adorable Nancy Carroll. Grant was getting the star build-up at the time and had not yet become his "Cary Grant" persona. Having seen a lot of early Grant films, I'd say he was heavier early on and I personally think his nose was different. Just an observation.
Nancy Carroll plays bank clerk Ruth Brock, who is pretty and popular. She's engaged to tall, handsome Randolph Scott. I wouldn't cheat on him either.
When she rejects one of her coworkers, Ed, he starts gossip about her and a notorious playboy (Grant), when all that happened was that she ran away from him and into the woods, and Grant offered her a ride home.
They live in a small town where if you have a funeral with a closed casket, it's assumed to be suicide. So the ramifications for Ruth are bad. She loses her job, for one thing, her mother turns against her, and it gets worse!
Good film and a good example of the mores of the day, and I think there is still a double standard for men's and women's behavior in some areas and among some groups.
Carroll was a real bright light whose looks reminded me of Claudette Colbert's. She made a highly successful transition into talkies and was an enormous star at Paramount throughout the 1930s. She retired in 1938 and eleven years later, began to work in television, and later, returned to her stage roots. She died of an aneurysm in her hotel room during a run of "Never Too Late."
Worth seeing for the leads.