Directed by:
William DieterleScreenplay:
Carl EricksonCinematography:
William ReesComposer:
Heinz RoemheldCast:
William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Verree Teasdale, Reginald Owen, Henry O'Neill, Phillip Reed, Gordon Westcott, Etienne Girardot (more)VOD (1)
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What was fashion in 1934? Comedy, con men, Orry-Kelly gowns, Busby Berkeley production numbers and, in their only screen pairing, two of cinema's greatest stars: William Powell and Bette Davis. The story whisks audiences off to Paris with a fashion sharpie (Powell) and a designer (Davis) who hope to bootleg the hottest haute couture and flood New York with knockoffs. The two stars make larceny seem like great fun. And Berkeley's numbers are astonishing. Gorgeous girls wearing little more than ostrich plumes form a Web of Dreams, Venus with Her Gallery Slaves and The Hall of Human Harps, which prompted one indignant mother to write an article titled I Don't Want My Daughter Growing Up To Be A Human Harp. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
William Powell
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Bette Davis
USA
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Frank McHugh
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Dodge City (1939)
Hugh Herbert
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Verree Teasdale
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Come Live with Me (1941)
The Milky Way (1936)
Reginald Owen
UK
Best movies:
Madame Curie (1943)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Henry O'Neill
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Phillip Reed
USA
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
The Tattered Dress (1957)
Gordon Westcott
USA
Best movies:
Queen Kelly (1929)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Front Page Woman (1935)
Etienne Girardot
UK
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Nella Walker
USA
Best movies:
Sabrina (1954)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Spencer Charters
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
George Humbert
Italy
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Dorothy Burgess
USA
Best movies:
Hold Your Man (1933)
In Old Arizona (1928)
Jane Darwell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Caged (1950)
Frank Darien
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Harry Beresford
UK
Best movies:
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Anna Karenina (1935)
Sam McDaniel
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Union Pacific (1939)
Maxine Doyle
USA
Best movies:
Dames (1934)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Leo White
German Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
The Invisible Man (1933)