Fast and Loose (film)

Fast and Loose (film)

Infobox Film
name = Fast and Loose


image_size = 225px
caption = theatrical poster
director = Fred C. Newmeyer
producer =
writer = Play:
David Gray
Avery Hopwood
Screen story:
Doris Anderson
Jack Kirkland
Dialogue:
Preston Sturges
narrator =
starring = Miriam Hopkins
Carole Lombard
Frank Morgan
music =
cinematography = William O. Steiner
editing =
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = 8 November fy|1930
runtime = 70 minutes
country = FilmUS
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0020873

"Fast and Loose" is a fy|1930 romantic comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Doris Anderson, Jack Kirkland and Preston Sturges, based on the 1924 play "The Best People" by David Gray and Avery Hopwood. [ibdb show|1960|The Best People] [TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=74598&category=Screenplay%20Info Screenplay info] ] "Fast and Loose" was released by Paramount Pictures.

Other films or TV series with identical or similar titles, such as the fy|1939 MGM detective comedy starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell, are not related to this film.

Plot

The Lennox family of Long Island, headed by Bronson (Frank Morgan) and Carrie (Winifred Harris), is wealthy and respectful of tradition, but their children Bertie (Henry Wadsworth) and Marion Miriam Hopkins are more irreverent. When Bertie gets involved with a chorus girl, Alice O'Neil (Carole Lombard) and Marion fall in love with Henry Morgan (Charles Starrett), an auto mechanic, the family tries to intervene to prevent their children from marrying beneath themselves. [TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=74598&category=Full%20Synopsis Full synopsis] ]

Cast

Production

David Gray and Avery Hopwood's play, "The Best People", opened on Broadway on 19 August 1924 and ran for 142 performances. [ibdb title|9550|The Best People (1924)] (It was later revived in 1933 when it ran for a more modest 67 performances.) [ibdb title|11739|The Best People (1933)] Hopwood was a prolific and successful playwright, many of whose plays were adapted into films – his 1919 play "The Gold Diggers" provided the template for the Warner Bros. series of movie musicals.

"The Best People" was made into a silent film in fy|1925, "The Best People", [imdb title|0015618|The Best People] before Paramount had it refashioned into a vehicle for Miriam Hopkins, an established Broadway star [ibdb name|45564|Miriam Hopkins] who had just signed with the studio after making the short subject "The Home Girl" for them in fy|1928. [imdb name|0394244|Mirian Hopkins] "Fast and Loose" was her second film appearance.

"Fast and Loose" was also Preston Sturges second Hollywood assignment, after "The Big Pond" (and its French-language version "La grande mare"). Carole Lombard, on the other hand, had appeared in over 40 films by the time "Fast and Loose" was released, all as "Carol Lombard." [imdb name|0001479|Carole Lombard]

Notes

External links

*imdb title|0020873|Fast and Loose
*tcmdb title|74598|Fast and Loose
*amg movie|1:91059|Fast and Loose
*ibdb show|1960|The Best People (play)


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