Lady and Gent (1. Film. Affinity. Is the synopsis/plot summary missing? Do you want to report a spoiler, error or omission? Please send us a message. Find similar and related movies for Lady and Gent (1932) - Stephen R. One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and Gent stars George Bancroft as aging. Lady and Gent is a 1932 American drama film directed by Stephen Roberts and starring John Wayne. Another rarity,featuring, future cowboy star, Charles Starett.
Browse the fourth issue of BFI Filmmakers magazine; I want to. Get help as a new filmmaker. Find out what BFI Player. View Lady and Gent, 1932, directed by Stephen Roberts, with George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, in its original aspect ratio. Lady and Gent (1. Starring George Bancroft and Wynne Gibson . Released July 1. 5, 1. Written by Grover Jones and William Slavens Mc. Nutt. Directed by Stephen Roberts. Starring George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, James Gleason, John Wayne, Morgan Wallace, James Crane, William Halligan, Billy Butts, Joyce Compton, Frank Mc. Glynn Sor., Charley Grapewin. I came to Lady and Gent backwards, only seeking it out after being impressed by the even more obscure 1. Unmarried. I have to admit that I enjoyed the later movie a little more, largely because it manages to pack everything the original offered into twenty minutes less screen time, partially because of the impressive screen swan song it provides one of my favorites, Helen Twelvetrees, though it turns out she. Lady and Gent was a critical hit when it released in July 1. Motion Picture Herald opened their review with the proclamation, . A hard- to- find and underappreciated Paramount rarity today, in its own time Lady and Gent even received an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay by Grover Jones and William Slavens Mc. Nutt. They lost out to an even more sentimental fight yarn, The Champ by Frances Marion. Bancroft plays Slag Bailey, a past his prime prizefighter who drives his manager crazy by disappearing for a few drinks on fight night. James Gleason plays the fight manager, Pin Streaver, who. Slag is at Puff Rogers. Wynne Gibson plays Puff, a nightclub operator in the Texas Guinan mold, who we first meet singing a tune from her own stage. Above: James Gleason begs George Bancroft to win. Young Buzz puts a beating on Slag, leaving the old- timer bleeding on his stool in the corner between rounds. Pin is crushed. Slag tries to collect an advance on his next fight from fight promoter, Cash Enright (Morgan Wallace), who not only rejects him, but tells Slag that he. Pin leaves, dejected and desperate. Above: George Bancroft and Wynne Gibson. An interesting living arrangement reveals itself after Slag escorts Puff home. They occupy the same floor of a hotel in what turns out to be connected rooms. Slag and Puff each enter their own rooms, but once inside Slag joins Puff in her bedroom where they continue their conversation while undressing for bed. Before the exact sleeping arrangements are made clear the couple are interrupted by a knock at Puff. Puff tries to stop Slag from going to help Pin, but it. Puff helps Slag put over Pin. The message is from somebody named Ted and coded with a series of Es and Gs that Puff thinks she. Old Pin was a widower who despite his shady actions was really battling to keep up a nice house and weekend visits to his boy. He thinks his dad and Slag are traveling salesman and charms Slag by telling him how much his dad thought of him and Mrs. Well, Pin said his two best friends, Slag and Puff, were married. It. A night turns into a month and then years as an unlikely family unit forms inside the Ironton home. Slag and Puff pose as husband and wife and proudly raise Ted from boyhood to college age (Charles Starrett takes over the part of Ted as a young man). Above: Gibson and Bancroft go domestic. The former fighter gets a job at the steel mill, while the night club hostess is flattered into accepting the presidency of the Better Yard and Garden Club. Slag is sold on their situation from the start, happily slipping into the ready made father role and adjusting to a new blue collar life. Puff fights it, but despite her often fiery demeanor she. Delight Evans of Screenland wrote, ? But the very best hokum. Above: Bancroft with Billy Butts. Lady and Gent was directed by Stephen Roberts during his tenure as a Paramount contract director. During this period Roberts also directed two scenes from If I Had a Million, including the segment featuring Wynne Gibson. He gets strong performances from both of his leads in Lady and Gent with the often larger than life Bancroft underplaying throughout and Gibson making the most of the flashier feminine lead. As noted at the top of this piece Lady and Gent was remade in 1. Unmarried with Helen Twelvetrees in the Gibson role and cowboy star Buck Jones stepping out of his spurs to take on the Bancroft part. While we can hope they eventually make their way to the Vault Series, best bet for now is to search the gray market at Find. Old. Movies and be happy to see either at all. Evans, Delight. Motion Picture Herald. July 1. 93. 2, 3. Above: George Bancroft and Wynne Gibson.
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