Overview

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.

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Cast

William Powell

Terence Ellerton 'Terry' O'Neill

Esther Williams

Kay Lorrison

Angela Lansbury

Dusty Millard

James Gleason

Snarp

Lewis Stone

Father Nolan

Rags Ragland

Fishface

Frank McHugh

Three Finger

Slim Summerville

Eel

Roman Bohnen

Father O'Doul

Charles Arnt

Cy Nolan - O'Neill's Secretary

Louis Jean Heydt

Mike Flaherty

Charles Trowbridge

Uncle Joe Lorrison