Laughter (film)
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Director Harry dAbbadie dArrast Music director Vernon Duke Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Douglas Z. Doty , Herman J. Mankiewicz , Donald Ogden Stewart Release date September 25, 1930 (1930-09-25) Screenplay Harry dAbbadie dArrast, Donald Ogden Stewart, Douglas Z. Doty, Herman J. Mankiewicz Cast Nancy Carroll (Peggy Gibson), Fredric March (Paul Lockridge), Frank Morgan (C. Mortimer Gibson), Glenn Anders (Ralph Le Sainte)Similar movies Fredric March appears in Laughter and The Royal Family of Broadway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laughter is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and starring Nancy Carroll, Fredric March and Frank Morgan.
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The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story.
A copy has been preserved at the Library of Congress.
In 1931, a German-language version called Die Männer um Lucie was released starring Liane Haid and Lien Deyers. This film is considered lost.
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Plot
Peggy is a Follies dancer who forsakes her life of carefree attachments in order to meet her goal of marrying a millionaire. Alas, her elderly husband, broker C. Morton Gibson, is a well-meaning bore, and soon Peggy begins seeking entertainment elsewhere.
A year after their marriage, three significant events occur almost simultaneously. Peggy's former boyfriend, Paul Lockridge, a composer and pianist who is in love with her and seems to have a funny quip for every occasion, returns from Paris. She reunites with him as he offers her his companionship as a diversion from her stuffy life. Also, Ralph Le Saint, a young devil-may-care sculptor who is still in love with Peggy, plans his suicide in a mood of bitterness, and Gibson's daughter, Marjorie, returns from schooling abroad. Marjorie is soon paired with Ralph, and the romance that develops between them is paralleled by the adult affair between Peggy and Paul.
Ralph and Marjorie's escapades result in considerable trouble for Morton, while Paul implores Peggy to go to Paris with him, declaring "You are rich--dirty rich. You are dying. You need laughter to make you clean," but she refuses. When Marjorie plans to elope with Ralph, Peggy exposes the sculptor as a fortune hunter; and, dejected, he commits suicide. As a result, Peggy confesses her unhappiness to Gibson, then joins Paul and laughter in Paris.
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