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    No More Orchids

    1932 · Romance · 1h 5m

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  1. 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. Plot [ edit ] The departure of an ocean liner is held up to wait for spoiled heiress Anne Holt ( Carole Lombard ).

  2. 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.

    • (511)
    • Drama, Romance
    • Walter Lang
    • 1932-11-25
  3. No More Orchids was made on loan from Lombard's home studio of Paramount to Columbia. Lombard had just made Virtue (1932) at Columbia, and was a favorite of studio head Harry Cohn, whose salty language matched her own. He was so fond of her, in fact, that he gave her solo star billing in No More Orchids for the first time in her career.

    • Walter Lang, Sam Nelson
    • Carole Lombard
  4. 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. Back home, Anne tells her father ...

    • (4)
    • Dennis Schwartz
    • Drama, Romance
    • Walter Lang
  5. But at least in this film, someone cashed in all of his chips for something more than just selfish reasons. "No More Orchids" should certainly be seen by pre-code film fans, fans of Carole Lombard, and fans of many others in the cast, particularly Lyle Talbot and C. Aubrey Smith. It is a very good film. 4/10.

  6. No More Orchids falls into that category, a movie that dutifully follows a romantic plot then runs headfirst into a family drama. By the 60 minute mark when the film has decided to start following a different main character, it asks you to reevaluate where you thought the picture was going again. What is No More Orchids trying to say? A lot ...

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  8. Definite Moulin Rouge! vibes as banker's daughter Carole Lombard falls for working-class Lyle Talbot on a cruise, then valiantly tries to cut ties with him so that a marriage in name only to "Prince Carlos" (Jameson Thomas) can repair her dad's (Walter Connolly) financial crisis. The course of true love never did run smooth!

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