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The Girl Said No (1930 film)

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Production
  
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genres
  
Comedy, Romance Film

Language
  
English

7.8/10
IMDb

Director
  
Sam Wood

Costume design
  
David Cox

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

The Girl Said No (1930 film) movie poster

Writer
  
A. P. Younger
,
Sarah Y. Mason
,
Charles MacArthur

Release date
  
March 15, 1930 (1930-03-15)

Cast
  
William Haines
(Tom Ward),
Leila Hyams
(Mary Howe),
Marie Dressler
(Hettie Brown),
Polly Moran
(Polly),
Clara Blandick
(Mrs. Ward),
William Janney
(Jimmie Ward)

Similar movies
  
Related Sam Wood movies

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The Girl Said No is a 1930 Pre-Code American romantic comedy film starring William Haines and Leila Hyams. In the film, a young college graduate goes to extreme lengths to win the girl he loves.

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Plot

Tom Ward, a cocky young football hero, returns home after graduation determined to conquer the world. He begins a flirtation with Mary Howe, secretary to his rival, McAndrews, and in a restaurant he bribes a waiter to spill soup on her employer. Although offered a local banking job, Tom stakes his fortunes on a scheme to sell bonds to wealthy old Hattie Brown, a befuddled spinster, and achieves the difficult task while posing as a doctor by getting her drunk. Finally, desperate over Mary's engagement to McAndrews, Tom kidnaps her from the altar. In a chase finale she is convinced that he loves her.

Cast

  • William Haines as Tom Ward
  • Leila Hyams as Mary Howe
  • Polly Moran as Polly
  • Marie Dressler as Hettie Brown
  • Ralph Bushman as J. Marvin McAndrews
  • Clara Blandick as Mrs Ward
  • William Janney as Jimmie Ward
  • William V. Mong as Samuel A. Ward
  • Frank Coghlan as Eddie Ward
  • Phyllis Crane as Alma Ward
  • Production

    After the box office success of Anna Christie (1930) and the rave reviews that not only Greta Garbo received for her performance but also her co-star Marie Dressler, M-G-M management decided to cast the latter actress in The Girl Said No. Although Dressler was happy to have a new assignment from the studio, she had to hide her disappointment over the script and her role.

    According to biographer Betty Lee in Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star, "It seemed fairly obvious..that although M-G-M was impressed with Dressler's potential...the top office did not know how to handle their unique new contract player. [Studio head] Louis B. Mayer, who had already informed his minions that he wanted Dressler to be marketed as a mother figure who was also a battered version of life's wars, asked her to lunch in his private bungalow on the Culver City lot. Not only did Dressler appear to be a substantial mother figure in real life, M-G-M's boss was also aware that the actress exuded an easy air of upper-class panache. She was, he decided, a far classier individual than the Hollywood glamour girls he often professed to disdain."

    Dressler would go on to star in a total of seven films in 1930 and win the Best Actress OscarĀ® for her performance in Min and Bill (1930), opposite Wallace Beery.

    References

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