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Love Is a Racket (UK title: Such Things Happen) is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Ann Dvorak. The movie was written by Courtney Terrett from the novel by Rian James, and directed by William A. Wellman.
- June 10, 1932
- Leo F. Forbstein (Vitaphone Orch cond)
- Love Is a Racket, 1931 novel, by Rian James
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Love Is a Racket: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Lee Tracy. A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- William A. Wellman
- 1932-06-18
Summaries. A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster. Jimmy writes the 'Up and Down Broadway' column for the New York Globe, and he is head over heels for Mary. But Mary is more interested in her career and is looking at starring on Broadway with the help of Boncour. However, there is a problem with the rubber ...
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Unpunished murder, my friends. The good old fashioned kind.Stanley interjects in a moment of realization, “Well, I’ll be a double jointed son of a b… Belgian acrobat.”Let’s take a brief moment and ponder the mystery of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Affable, good looking, and all around a nice kind of guy, he’s always stood in the long shadow of his father, Douglas Fairbanks, the swashbuckler of the silent screen. While Senior gallantly rode off into the sunset in the early 30s, Junior became a charming screen star in h...
The inscrutable Movie Divaalso uses this one to talk about Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and William A. Wellman. Here’s her take on Fairbanks’ then-current popularity:
Mixing comedy, romance and melodrama in equal measure, Love Is a Racket breezes along as a free-wheeling portrait of a callous newshound/ladies' man until the midway point when it escalates into a crime story complete with blackmail and murder. The central premise has columnist Jimmy Russell (Fairbanks) romancing Mary (Frances Dee), an aspiring ...
- William A. Wellman
- Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. decides that "Love is a Racket" in this 1932 film directed by William Wellman and also starring Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee and Lee Tracy. Fairbanks Jr. is Jimmy Russell, who writes a Broadway beat column. He's in love with a young actress (Dee) who finds herself in debt to a criminal and asks Jimmy for help.
