Carole Lombard
Annie Holt
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No More Orchids is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Carole Lombard and Lyle Talbot as mismatched lovers, based on the novel of the same name by Grace Perkins.
No More Orchids: Directed by Walter Lang. With Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Lyle Talbot. An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise.
The departure of an ocean liner is delayed pending the arrival of Anne Holt, the daughter of the ship's owner and heiress to the biggest fortune in America. On the cruise, Anne pursues passenger Tony Gage and flirts with him.
Like Lombard’s other loan out to Columbia, Virtue, No More Orchids is essentially about expectations running into the wall of reality. Here’s she’s a rich heiress who meets a charming young lawyer on board a cruise ship.
No More Orchids (1932) *** (out of 4) Interesting, if a tad bit strange, drama about a rich brat (Carole Lombard) who falls in love with an average guy (Lyle Talbot) but her greedy grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) forces her to marry a rich Prince so that her father will be saved from his debt.
No More Orchids. On a cruise, Tony Gage (Lyle Talbot) meets heiress Anne Holt (Carole Lombard) but, knowing that she's engaged to royalty, resists her flirtations.
- Drama, Romance
At the urging of her curmudgeon old grandfather Jerome Cedric ( C. Aubrey Smith ), spoiled rich kid Annie Holt ( Carole Lombard) is forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father, Bill Holt ( Walter Connolly ), from financial ruin. The man she really desires is Tony Gage ( Lyle Talbot ). It takes a well-written insurance policy ...
