The Party's Over
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Walter Lang
Director
Stuart Erwin
Bruce [Blakely]
Ann Sothern
Ruth [Walker]
Arline Judge
Phyllis
Chick Chandler
Martin
Patsy Kelly
Mabel
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Adaptation
Drama
Release Date
May
15,
1934
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Columbia Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Columbia Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play The Party's Over by Daniel Kusell (New York, 27 Mar 1933).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 3m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
7 reels
Synopsis
Accountant Bruce Blakely pays all the family bills and settles the effects of their wild actions. His sister Phyllis is in love with an aspiring singer named Martin. His mother Sarah is oblivious to her husband Theodore's lecherous come-ons to the family's ever-changing domestic help. Younger brother, Clay, who is still in college, flits from one escapade to another. Later, Phyllis tires of waiting for Martin to succeed and marries him, and Clay comes home married to a waitress, Betty Decker. Bruce invites his faithful secretary, Ruth, to dinner. Afterwards, he shows her his paintings and allows her to take her favorite painting home. Unknown to him, Ruth enters Bruce's painting in an exhibition, where it wins an honorable mention. Bruce decides to go to Paris to study art and he realizes his love for Ruth. When Bruce announces his plans to the family, each one protests for their own selfish reasons and together their protestations manage to win back his sympathy but not without causing a rift between Ruth and him. She leaves in anger, planning to travel to Europe alone. Later that evening, Tilly, the latest of the family's maids, arrives with her husband. They seek $5,000 as compensation for Theodore's lecherous advances toward Tilly. Bruce rejects Theodore's pleas to pay and punches the blackmailing husband. He then tells the family they must fend for themselves and departs for Europe on a ship with Ruth.
Director
Walter Lang
Director
Cast
Stuart Erwin
Bruce [Blakely]
Ann Sothern
Ruth [Walker]
Arline Judge
Phyllis
Chick Chandler
Martin
Patsy Kelly
Mabel
Catharine Doucet
Sarah
Marjorie Lytell
Betty [Decker]
Henry Travers
Theodore
William Bakewell
Clay
Rollo Lloyd
Fred
Esther Muir
Tilly
Edward Mcwade
Hurley
Maurice Black
Greek proprietor of sweet shop
Bud Jamison
Man on street car
Nick Copeland
Joe
Billie Van Every
Flirtatious girl
Betty Lorraine
Flirtatious girl
Mildred Gover
Black maid
Kearney Walton
Crooner
Eddie Baker
Parking station attendant
Hal Price
Proprietor of speakeasy
Charles Hickman
Man in speakeasy
Kernan Cripps
Guard in art gallery
Colin Kenny
Elevator starter
Stanley Blystone
Bartender
Billy West
Penny arcade owner
Grace Hayle
Society woman
Isabel La Mal
Society woman
Jessie Arnold
Society woman
Helen Dickson
Society woman
Harriet Lorraine
Society woman
Rita Ross
Society woman
Marion Sheldon
Society woman
Montague Shaw
Patron in art gallery
Gladys Gale
Patron in art gallery
Jack Kenny
Crew
Arthur Black
Assistant Director
F. M. Browne
Camera Operator
Harry Cohn
Company
George Cooper
Sound Engineer
Fred Dawson
Assistant Camera
Bill Fraker
Still Photographer
Benjamin Kline
Photography
S. K. Lauren
Screenwriter
Viola Lawrence
Film Editor
Walter Meins
Grip
Sharon O'farrell
Stand-in
Howard Robertson
Gaffer
Jack Russell
Assistant Camera
Felix Young
Associate Producer
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Adaptation
Drama
Release Date
May
15,
1934
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Columbia Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Columbia Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play The Party's Over by Daniel Kusell (New York, 27 Mar 1933).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 3m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
7 reels
Articles
TCM Remembers - Ann Sothern
Actress Ann Sothern passed away on March 15th at the age of 89. Her film career spanned sixty years and included a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for The Whales of August (1987) and several Emmy nominations for her roles in the TV shows Private Secretary (1953) and The Ann Sothern Show (1958). Sothern was born as Harriette Lake in North Dakota. She made her first film appearance in 1927 in small roles (so small, in fact, that some sources omit any films before 1929) before deciding to work on Broadway instead. Shortly afterwards she signed with Columbia Pictures where studio head Harry Cohn insisted she change her name because there were already too many actors with the last name of Lake. So "Ann" came from her mother's name Annette and "Sothern" from Shakespearean actor E.H. Sothern. For most of the 1930s she appeared in light comedies working with Eddie Cantor, Maurice Chevalier, Mickey Rooney and Fredric March. However, it wasn't until she switched to MGM (after a brief period with RKO) and made the film Maisie (1939) that Sothern hit pay dirt. It proved enormously popular and led to a series of nine more films through 1947 when she moved into dramas and musicals. During the 50s, Sothern made a mark with her TV series but returned to mostly second tier movies in the 1960s and 1970s. Finally she earned an Oscar nomination for her work in 1987's The Whales of August (in which, incidentally, her daughter Tisha Sterling played her at an earlier age). Turner Classic Movies plans to host a retrospective film tribute to her in July. Check back for details in June.
TCM Remembers - Ann Sothern
Actress Ann Sothern passed away on March 15th at the age of 89. Her film career spanned sixty years and included a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for The Whales of August (1987) and several Emmy nominations for her roles in the TV shows Private Secretary (1953) and The Ann Sothern Show (1958). Sothern was born as Harriette Lake in North Dakota. She made her first film appearance in 1927 in small roles (so small, in fact, that some sources omit any films before 1929) before deciding to work on Broadway instead. Shortly afterwards she signed with Columbia Pictures where studio head Harry Cohn insisted she change her name because there were already too many actors with the last name of Lake. So "Ann" came from her mother's name Annette and "Sothern" from Shakespearean actor E.H. Sothern. For most of the 1930s she appeared in light comedies working with Eddie Cantor, Maurice Chevalier, Mickey Rooney and Fredric March. However, it wasn't until she switched to MGM (after a brief period with RKO) and made the film Maisie (1939) that Sothern hit pay dirt. It proved enormously popular and led to a series of nine more films through 1947 when she moved into dramas and musicals. During the 50s, Sothern made a mark with her TV series but returned to mostly second tier movies in the 1960s and 1970s. Finally she earned an Oscar nomination for her work in 1987's The Whales of August (in which, incidentally, her daughter Tisha Sterling played her at an earlier age). Turner Classic Movies plans to host a retrospective film tribute to her in July. Check back for details in June.
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According to a modern source, Frank Borzage was originally set to direct this film.
