Joan Crawford
Ivy "Bunny" Stevens
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Laughing Sinners. Laughing Sinners is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a cafe entertainer who experiences spiritual redemption. The dialogue by Martin Flavin was based upon the play Torch Song by Kenyon Nicholson. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont.
Laughing Sinners: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau. Cabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.
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- Drama, Romance
- Harry Beaumont
- 1931-05-30
Laughing Sinners (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Romeo With a hard-to-attribute novelty number about a chicken named Romeo, Joan Crawford as night club performer "Ivy" is 27, bright, charming and a creditable dancer, later joining her nervous boyfriend (Neil Hamilton), in MGM's Laughing Sinners, 1931, .
- Harry Beaumont, William Ryan
- Joan Crawford
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him. Ivy Stevens is a cafe ...
Laughing Sinners is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a cafe entertainer who experiences spiritual redemption. The dialogue by Martin Flavin was based upon the play Torch Song by Kenyon Nicholson. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont. Laughing Sinners was the second of eight cinematic collaborations between ...
Laughing Sinners started out with Johnny Mack Brown as the Salvation Army Worker who saves Crawford and the film was completed when Louis B. Mayer saw the film and said reshoot it with Gable. This was after having seen them together in Dance Fools Dance where Gable was a villain and had only a couple of scenes with Crawford.
Laughing Sinners plot "America's Dancing Daughter in a Salvation Army Uniform-the dramatic triumph of her career." A singer in a nightclub has a lover whom she only meets on weekends. When he abandons her, she attempts suicide. A Salvation Army soldier stops her. She decides to join the Salvation Army as well. But then her former boyfriend returns.
