Ladies Must Live
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Noel Smith
Wayne Morris
Rosemary Lane
Lee Patrick
Roscoe Karns
George Reeves
Film Details
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Synopsis
Corey Lake, a millionaire farmer living in upstate New York, meets nightclub singer Pat Halliday when her car gets stuck along a country road near his farm. Smitten with the singer, Corey, accompanied by his Indian valet, Chief Thunderbird, goes to New York, where he dons a dress suit and frequents the nightclubs. Pat is astonished when Corey appears at the club where she is performing, but she soon takes an interest in him when she learns that he is rich. Later, Corey offers Pat's brother George a lucrative job and advances her father Paul $200,000 to manufacture a can opener that he has patented. Pat and Corey become engaged, but when Corey's friend, Peter Larrabee, arrives from the Midwest for the wedding, he misunderstands the situation and accuses Pat and her family of being gold diggers. When Pete insults the Halliday family, Corey slaps him. Pete's wife Mary, however, believes that Pat truly loves Corey, and attempts to straighten her husband out by threatening him with divorce unless he takes back his accusations. The Hallidays, meanwhile, are disgraced by the whole affair and turn their backs on Corey. They also demand that Corey choose between Pat and Pete. Corey returns his engagement gift to Pat, an expensive necklace, but when George opens the case, he finds it empty. After calling together all the possible suspects in the crime, Corey admits that he removed the necklace himself in order to bring everyone in and force an end to the dispute. Amends are quickly made, as Chief Thunderbird's peace pipe is passed around, and the wedding plans are resumed with Pete reinstated as the best man.
Director
Noel Smith
Cast
Wayne Morris
Rosemary Lane
Lee Patrick
Roscoe Karns
George Reeves
Ferris Taylor
Lottie Williams
De Wolf Hopper
Cliff Saum
Billy Dawson
Mildred Gover
Dana Dale
Mildred Coles
Wen Niles
Crew
Milo Anderson
Sammy Cahn
Saul Chaplin
Elmer Decker
Everett Dodd
Bryan Foy
Esdras Hartley
William Jacobs
Robert E. Kent
Ted Mccord
Francis J. Scheid
Harry Seymour
Jack L. Warner
Perc Westmore
Film Details
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Trivia
The play originally opened in New York on 23 August 1926 and had 64 performances. In the cast were 'Robert McWade' , Chester Morris and Georgia Caine.
Notes
In addition to this film, Warner Bros. produced two other films based on Cohan's play: the 1928 film The Home Towners, directed by Addison Burkhart and starring Richard Bennett and Doris Kenyon (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.2562); and the 1936 film Times Square Playboy, directed by William McGann and starring Gene and Kathleen Lockhart (see below).
