Reaching for the Moon
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Edmund Goulding
Douglas Fairbanks
Bebe Daniels
Edward Everett Horton
Claud Allister
Jack Mulhall
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the same hotel, two parties are being held, one a farewell for wealthy society woman Vivian Benton, an amateur aviatrix, and her show, Aero Girls of America, and the other a recognition dinner for successful stockbroker Larry Day. Day is very inexperienced in love, so Vivian bets Day's assistant, Jimmy Carrington, that she can get a date with him before her ship sails the following evening. Vivian successfully makes the date, but as Day is getting romantic advice from his valet, Roger, she calls him from the ship to break the date, amusing herself at his expense. Vivian is traveling to England with her fiancé, Parkington Chempson, to open her show. Determined to get even, Day and Roger board the same ship, and Day spends the voyage unsuccessfully wooing Vivian, falling in love with her in spite of himself. While Day concentrates on Vivian, his financial situation deteriorates until the stock market crash reduces him to bankruptcy. The last night on board ship, Day declares his love for Vivian. Members of her troop eavesdrop on their conversation, and when their presence is discovered, Day believes that this is another one of Vivian's jokes. At the dock at Northampton, however, Vivian tells Day that she loves him, too, and even the fact that he is broke will not deter her from marrying him.
Director
Edmund Goulding
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks
Bebe Daniels
Edward Everett Horton
Claud Allister
Jack Mulhall
Walter Walker
June Maccloy
Helen Jerome Eddy
Bing Crosby
Luana Walters
Emmett Corrigan
Adrienne D'ambricourt
Kate Price
Crew
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
David Cox
Lonnie D'orsa
Edmund Goulding
Julia Heron
Elsie Janis
Ray June
Hal C. Kern
Oscar Lagerstrom
William Cameron Menzies
Alfred Newman
Lloyd Nosler
Robert Planck
Theodore Reed
Joseph M. Schenck
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
I beg pardon, sir. Do you ever dream of girls?- Roger
No, when I dream, it's usually about horses.- Larry Day
Technically, much safer, sir.- Roger
There's a vast difference, sir, between the art of making money and the art of making... a lady.- Roger
Trivia
Ginger Rogers was originally casted as Kitty.
Notes
According to Variety, the negative cost of the film was an expensive seven figures. None of the five songs originally written by Irving Berlin for the production, including "Reaching for the Moon" and "When the Folks High-Up Do the Mean Low-Down," were used in the final film. According to United Artists' press material, June MacCloy was a former showgirl in "George White's Scandals." Luana Walters made her screen debut in the production. Douglas Fairbanks starred in a 1917 film by the same title, but it had no relation to this film.
