Way For A Sailor is about two of those folks, John Gilbert and Wallace Beery who
love 'em and leave 'em in every port. Gilbert is in a part that someone like Robert Taylor at MGM or Tyrone Power at 20th Century Fox would have done a bit later.
Folks were used to seeing Gilbert as the great lover so this was either an effort to broaden his image or ruin it depending on your interpretation. L.B. Mayer was looking to get rid of him no doubt.
Anyway Gilbert and Beery are in London and the challenge awaits Gilbert from Beery to score with Leila Hyams who works in a shipping office who is dubbed as a cold fish.
She falls for him, even marries him, but Hyams realizes that he's a reprobate and won't change. At least at a certain point in the plot.
People went to see this I have no doubt for Wallace Beery who was rising in popularity as sound came in. Gilbert comes off a distinct second best.
Beery's fans will like this. Though I wonder in 1930 what the movie going public thought of a character with the nickname of Tripod. No wonder he got girls.
Folks were used to seeing Gilbert as the great lover so this was either an effort to broaden his image or ruin it depending on your interpretation. L.B. Mayer was looking to get rid of him no doubt.
Anyway Gilbert and Beery are in London and the challenge awaits Gilbert from Beery to score with Leila Hyams who works in a shipping office who is dubbed as a cold fish.
She falls for him, even marries him, but Hyams realizes that he's a reprobate and won't change. At least at a certain point in the plot.
People went to see this I have no doubt for Wallace Beery who was rising in popularity as sound came in. Gilbert comes off a distinct second best.
Beery's fans will like this. Though I wonder in 1930 what the movie going public thought of a character with the nickname of Tripod. No wonder he got girls.