The Lady Objects
Cast & Crew
Erle C. Kenton
Lanny Ross
Gloria Stuart
Joan Marsh
Roy Benson
Pierre Watkin
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Former college football hero and glee club member William Hayward works as an architect in New York City. Bill's wife, Ann Adams, is an attorney who is on her way up, and when she wins a big case for her firm, she is promoted to junior partner. Bill, who has not experienced notoriety since his college days, is jealous of Ann's success. One night at a party, Bill realizes he cannot afford the stakes in a card game, and leaves to see two college friends, George Martin and June Lane, perform at a nightclub. George is a magician and June is Bill's old sweetheart. Then, Ann is sent to Washington D.C. for two weeks, and in her rush to leave, she neglects to pay their housekeepers. Bill does not have the money to pay the housekeepers himself and quits his job to take advantage of George's offer to perform at the nightclub. When Ann learns what Bill has done, she gets drunk and goes to the Club Done to see Bill perform. While she is there, she sees Bill kiss June. Then, Bill moves out of their house and although he refuses to talk to Ann, he will not renew his romance with June. Rejected, June goes to Bill's new apartment and drinks until she falls in a drunken stupor. When Bill returns to his apartment, he finds June strangled to death on her necklace, which was caught in her fall. Bill is put on trial for June's death and refuses Ann's offer to defend him. At the trial, Bill's attorney, Mr. Harper, fails in his re-enactment of the accident, which causes his defense to falter. Then, the prosecutor claims Ann worked to support Bill, which causes her to address the jury and denounce herself. Ann's actions help Bill obtain an acquittal and afterwards, Bill returns to performing as Ann watches appreciatively.
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Cast
Lanny Ross
Gloria Stuart
Joan Marsh
Roy Benson
Pierre Watkin
Robert Paige
Arthur Loft
Stanley Andrews
Jan Buckingham
Bess Flowers
Ann Doran
Vesey O'davoren
Edward Le Saint
Raymond Brown
Harry C. Bradley
Mildred Gover
Mabel Colcord
Harvey Clark
Wilbur Mack
Gloria Blondell
Lloyd Whitlock
Phillips Smalley
Robert Fiske
Walter Merrill
Eddie Fetherston
Hooper Atchley
Dick Curtis
Dora Clemant
Arthur Stuart Hull
Gene Morgan
Jack Egan
Eric Alden
Harry Bernard
Hollis Jewell
Robert Quirk
David Newell
Stanley Brown
Beatrice Blinn
Charles Conrad
Bruce Warren
Gene Stone
Al Herman
Ed Cecil
Dick Rush
Nell Craig
Lew King
Jessie Graves
Edmund Mortimer
Georgia Cooper
Nelroy Buck
May Wallace
Eva Dennison
Lola Jensen
Beatrice Curtis
Dick French
Crew
Lionel Banks
Clifford Broughton
Al Clark
Harry Cohn
Milton Drake
Frank Goodwin
Stephen Goosson
Oscar Hammerstein Ii
Kalloch
Charles Kenyon
Gladys Lehman
Ben Oakland
William Perlberg
Allen G. Siegler
Morris Stoloff
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Song
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The working title for this film was Lady Lawyer. Many contemporary sources mistakenly list assistant director Clifford Broughton as director instead of Erle C. Kenton. "A Mist Is Over the Moon" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song. A Hollywood Reporter production chart lists the following uncredited actors: Stanley Brown, Robert Fiske and David Newell, whose participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Although the writing credits differ, this film bears a striking resemblance to Columbia's 1933 film, Ann Carver's Profession.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1938
Released in United States 1938
