Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Gentleman's Fate (1931)

Gentleman's Fate (1931) -- (Movie Clip) A Father Living?

Having decided to marry , slick New Yorker Jack (John Gilbert) has been summoned to meet his lawyer Mario (Paul Porcasi), who manages his apparently vast estate, who has news to match, early in MGM’s gangster-ish Gentleman’s Fate, 1931.

Gentleman's Fate (1931) -- (Movie Clip) He Don't Look Like You

Now informed that he’s not an orphan as he’d been told his whole life, and that he has a gangster father who’s about to die across the river in Jersey City, New Yorker Jack (John Gilbert) meets thug Mike (George Cooper), Mabel (Marie Prevost), and his brother Frank (Louis Wolheim), in Gentleman’s Fate, 1931.

Gentleman's Fate (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Be An Echo

Opening, with an uncredited actor as the butler, still further proof there was nothing wrong with John Gilbert’s voice or delivery in talkies, he’s introduced as New York dandy Jack Thomas, inspired to get married, Mervyn LeRoy directing, in Gentleman’s Fate, 1931, co-starring Louis Wolheim.

Gentleman's Fate (1931) -- (Movie Clip) She Wants To Talk To Giacomo

Having taken somewhat better than expected to the news that he’s not an orphan, and is part of a mob family, Jack, now called Giacomo (John Gilbert) with his brother (Louis Wolheim), takes a call from his rightly alarmed fianceè (Leila Hyams), in MGM’s Gentleman’s Fate, 1931.