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Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon . It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best ...
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Apple Annie, a poor woman who sells apples in New York, pretends to be a wealthy lady for her daughter's fiancé from Spain. A gangster helps her with a luxury apartment, but complications arise when he falls in love with her.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Frank Capra
- 1933-09-13
Lady For A Day (1933) -- (Movie Clip) In Your Own Vernacular We’ve just met Guy Kibbee as “Judge” Blake, engaged in a pool hustle (Irving Bacon the dupe) when Shakespeare (Nat Pendleton) arrives, representing Dave the Dude (Warren William), to recruit him as a stand-in husband for dolled-up Apple Annie (May Robson), with Ned Sparks as Happy and Glenda Farrell as Missouri, in Frank Capra ...
- Frank Capra, Charles C. Coleman
- Warren William
Audience Member Lady for a Day is the signature performance of Runyon's, "Madame La Gimp." The cast is excellent especially Mary Robson. Warren William does a banner job as Dave the Dude. One ...
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- Warren William
- Frank Capra
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
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A gangster tries to make a lady out of a fruit seller who claims to be a high society member. The plot summary of the 1933 comedy film Lady for a Day, starring May Robson and Jean Parker, who play a mother and daughter who pretend to be rich for a wedding. The film follows their adventures and challenges as they face the police, the press, and the count.
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture. Capra also directed its 1961 remake ...
Robert Riskin. Screenplay. Damon Runyon. Story. Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new ...
