A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.
Diana Gibson
- Secretary
- (as Diane Gibson)
Sylvia Andrew
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
William Arnold
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Aye
- Petty Officer
- (uncredited)
Ed Barton
- Jerry - Cabby
- (uncredited)
Jay Belasco
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
George Beranger
- Charles
- (uncredited)
Donald Briggs
- Stuart Farnum
- (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
- College Boy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough Faith Baldwin is credited onscreen as writer of a novel, it was actually just a short story in a magazine. No novel was ever published.
- GoofsAbout 5 minutes into the movie, a horse-drawn taxi backs into a car & damages it's left headlight but in the next scene, it is the right headlight that is damaged & even more so.
- Quotes
Kay Colby: Incidentally, what's happened to the Count? Where is he?
Scott Miller: Where are the snows of yesteryear?
Kay Colby: Where the woodbine twineth.
Scott Miller: That's where the Count is.
- Crazy creditsCard after ending credits: "Thank You"
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD: " LA BISBETICA INNAMORATA (1938) + FESTA D'AMORE (1945)", distributed by DNA Srl (2 Films on a single DVD), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Hollywood Hist-o-Rama: Carole Lombard (1961)
- SoundtracksThe Old Gray Mare
(uncredited)
Traditional
Sung by the college boys after the brawl
Featured review
Has potential but no magic.
My main disappointment with this film is the choice of leading man. Indeed Preston Foster was primarily a straight actor and unaccustomed to romantic comedy. I simply do not see why Carole Lombard's character, Kay Colby would have the slightest temptation to fall in love with Foster's character, Scott Miller, a pushy, egotistical, wiseacre. Perhaps the moral of the tale is that if a man, no matter how obnoxious, pursues a woman long enough, she will give in. The film seems to start out in the middle of the story. No background is given to explain Kay Colby's relationship with either men. And then before you know it one of them is exiled to Japan and disappears from the middle third of the picture.
Now the film does pick up as it goes along and entertains sufficiently with snappy dialog and boisterous incidents. The "storm at sea" scene is particularly satisfying. Perhaps due to the fact that Carole did all her own stunts, taking all the punishment herself and sparing her stand-in. However, the ending is much too abrupt. All the conflict is resolved in the last few seconds of the movie. The characters are not allowed to play out their feelings for us on screen. Perhaps it has all gone on inside their heads, but alas we have missed it. Overall this film is worth seeing once for Lombard fans, but it does not endear and fades quickly from memory.
The popularity of "Love Before Breakfast" was helped at the time from the success of Carole's previous film which was still in theaters, "Hands Across the Table". This film would signal her rise to fame and was a precursor to five straight hits in a row over the next two years.
Now the film does pick up as it goes along and entertains sufficiently with snappy dialog and boisterous incidents. The "storm at sea" scene is particularly satisfying. Perhaps due to the fact that Carole did all her own stunts, taking all the punishment herself and sparing her stand-in. However, the ending is much too abrupt. All the conflict is resolved in the last few seconds of the movie. The characters are not allowed to play out their feelings for us on screen. Perhaps it has all gone on inside their heads, but alas we have missed it. Overall this film is worth seeing once for Lombard fans, but it does not endear and fades quickly from memory.
The popularity of "Love Before Breakfast" was helped at the time from the success of Carole's previous film which was still in theaters, "Hands Across the Table". This film would signal her rise to fame and was a precursor to five straight hits in a row over the next two years.
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- elginbrod2000
- May 1, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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