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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. Plot [ edit ] The departure of an ocean liner is held up to wait for spoiled heiress Anne Holt ( Carole Lombard ).
- English
- Walter Lang
- No More Orchids, 1932 novel, 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.
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- Walter Lang
- Passed
- Drama, Romance
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
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.
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 ...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama, Romance
- Walter Lang
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No More Orchids (1932) Carole Lombard is spoiled heiress Annie Holt - in the '30s, it seems like everyone was writing about spoiled heiresses. Anyway, she's engaged to a prince, but while on a cruise, she falls for Tony Gage (Lyle Talbot). He has no money, isn't impressed by hers, and pays no attention to her.
An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise. 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 ...