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This Marriage Business (1938) [NR]

Featuring:
Victor Moore, Allan Lane, Vickie Lester

Written by:
Gladys Atwater
J. Robert Bren
Mel Riddle

Directed by:
Christy Cabanne


Release Date:
April 8, 1938

Original Title:
This Marriage Business

Genres:
Adventure | Comedy

Production Companies:
RKO Radio Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 71

Cupid's Arrows Bark from Gangland's Guns! And love runs a race with danger in an exciting drama!

Overview from TheMovieDB

A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.

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Overview from Open Movies

New York city reporter Bill Terry (Allan Lane and his photographer-assistant "Candid" Perry (Jack Carson) follow an eloping heiress to a small New York town where he hears the marriage license clerk, Jud Holcomb (Victor Moore), give advice to the eloping couple, and he learns that no couple who has received a license from Jud has ever been divorced. Bill writes a story and Jud becomes a celebrity. Bill falls in love with Jud's daughter, Nancy (Vickie Lester), and local attorney Lloyd Wilson (Vinton Hayworth) finds he has become a jilted suitor. Jud is pleased as he dislikes Wilson because he is too friendly with roadhouse owner and political power-holder Joe Selby (Richard Lane), who controls Mayor Frisbee (Frank M. Thomas), Commissioner Perkins (Bryant Washburn) and Police Chief Hardy (Cecil Kellaway). Bill and Candid recognize Selby as a former NY gangster who had framed his partner Frankie Spencer and then gone away with Frankie's girl friend Bella Lawson (Kay Sutton), who is singing in Joe's nightclub. Jud runs for mayor on a reform ticket, but Selby kills Frankie and frames Jud for it.

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Rankings and Honors

This Marriage Business (1938) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.6/10

Performers

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Production

Art Direction:
Van Nest Polglase

Assistant Art Director:
Alfred Herman

Costume Designer:
Edward Stevenson

Director:
Christy Cabanne

Director of Photography:
Joseph H. August

Editor:
Harry Marker

Producer:
Cliff Reid

Screenplay:
Gladys Atwater
J. Robert Bren

Sound Recordist:
Richard Van Hessen

Story:
Mel Riddle
Alex Ruben

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