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Director
  
Frank Tuttle

Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.6/10
IMDb

Cinematography
  
Archie Stout

Distributor
  
Paramount Pictures

Country
  
United States

It Pays to Advertise (film) movie poster

Release date
  
February 19, 1931 (1931-02-19)

Writer
  
Ethel Doherty (adaptation), Walter C. Hackett (play), Arthur Kober (adaptation), Roi Cooper Megrue (play)

Cast
  
Norman Foster
(Rodney Martin),
Carole Lombard
(Mary Grayson),
Eugene Pallette
(Cyrus Martin),
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
(Ambrose Peale),
Louise Brooks
(Thelma Temple)

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It Pays to Advertise is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, based on the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, starring Norman Foster and Carole Lombard, and directed by Frank Tuttle.

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Plot

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Rodney Martin sets up a soap business to rival his father. With the help of an advertising expert and his secretary, Mary, he develops a successful marketing campaign. His father ends up buying the company from him, while Rodney and Mary fall in love.

Cast

  • Norman Foster as Rodney Martin
  • Carole Lombard as Mary Grayson
  • Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher as Ambrose Pearle
  • Eugene Pallette as Cyrus Martin
  • Lucien Littlefield as Adams
  • Judith Wood as Countess de Beaurien (credited as Helen Johnson)
  • Louise Brooks as Thelma Temple
  • Morgan Wallace as L. R. McChesney
  • Tom Kennedy as Perkins
  • Marcia Manners as Miss Burke
  • Frank Coghlan Jr. as Office Boy (credited as Junior Coghlan)
  • John Howell as Johnson
  • John Sinclair as Window Cleaner

    • Reception

    The film received positive reviews. Photoplay wrote that it has "plenty of speed and lots of laughs", and praised the "perfect cast".

    References

    It Pays to Advertise (film) Wikipedia
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    It Pays to Advertise (film) IMDb It Pays to Advertise (film) themoviedb.org