Gods Gift to Women
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Music director Leroy Shield Language English | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 13, 1931 (1931-04-13) Based on The Devil Was Sick by Jane Hinton Screenplay Raymond Griffith, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Joseph Jackson Cast (Toto Duryea), (Diane Churchill), (Fifi), (John Churchill), (Auguste, Toto's Butler), (Dr. Louis Dumont) Similar movies Self/less , The Expendables 3 , Stonehearst Asylum , Independence Day , Mission: Impossible III , Salt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
God's Gift to Women (1931) is an American Pre-Code romantic musical comedy film by Warner Brothers. The film starred Frank Fay, Charles Winninger, Laura LaPlante, Louise Brooks and Joan Blondell. The film was based on the play called The Devil Was Sick by Jane Hinton, and was originally completed as a musical film. Due to audience distaste for musicals, however, all the songs were cut in American prints. The complete film was released intact in other countries, where there was no such decline in popularity.
Contents
- God s gift to women with louise brooks joan blondell and frank fay 1931
- Plot
- Cast
- Cuts and surviving print
- References
God s gift to women with louise brooks joan blondell and frank fay 1931
Plot
Wealthy French playboy Toto Duryea (Frank Fay) is irresistible to women, but is in love with none of them. According to Monsieur Rancour (Armand Kaliz), for Toto, "every woman is like a new dish to be tasted." When he is finally and instantly smitten with American Diane Churchill (Laura LaPlante), he has great difficulty proving to her and her father (Charles Winninger) that he truly loves her. Finally, he convinces her that he is sincere; Mr. Churchill insists that Toto give up his women and carousing and stay away from his daughter for six months to prove he has reformed. He also asks that Toto get examined by Churchill's doctor.
Dr. Dumont (Arthur Edmund Carewe) has bad news for Toto: his heart is so weak, even the excitement caused by so much as a woman's kiss would be fatal. Toto takes to his bed, but three of his girlfriends insist on nursing him: Fifi (Joan Blondell), Florine (Louise Brooks) and Dagmar (Yola d'Avril). When they all converge on his bedroom and discover each other, they engage in a three-way catfight. Then an outraged husband (John T. Murray) shows up to shoot him. Fortunately, Dr. Dumont arrives and divulges Toto's condition. The husband and the three women all leave.
Then Diane shows up. Before she leaves with her father for America, she insists on spending an hour of passion with him. Unable to resist, he kisses her. When he remains alive, he upbraids the newly arrived Dr. Dumont for his faulty prognosis. Mr. Churchill explains that he had Dumont fake his diagnosis; it was all a test of Toto's claim that he loved Diane "more than life itself". Convinced, he gives Toto permission to marry Diane.
Cast
Cuts and surviving print
The following numbers were cut from the film version released in the United States, where musicals had lost their popularity:
The complete film was released intact in countries outside the United States, but only the American print is known to have survived with a print preserved by the Library of Congress.
Warner Archive Collection released the film on DVD on December 11, 2012.
References
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