Guy Kibbee

Lady for a Day

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June 14, 2022February 24, 2024

Lady for a Day (1933) starring Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, directed by Frank Capra

Synopsis of Lady for a Day

A Cinderella fairy tale set in the early 1930s, Lady for a Day is a delightfully charming mix of drama and comedy that earned four Academy Award nominations and propelled Frank Capra to the top ranks of popular filmmakers. Based on a Damon Runyon short story, Lady for a Day tells the tale of Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler who has been pretending to be a high-society matron in letters to her daughter. When her daughter comes to visit with her aristocratic fiance, Apple Annie enlists her seedy gangster friends, who hilariously transform her into the grandest of dames!

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August 6, 2021August 7, 2021

Man of the World (1931) starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Lawrence Gray, Guy Kibbee, George Chandler

Review

Man of the World is an riveting movie with a bittersweet ending. It’s the story of an American expatriate writer, living in Paris. He’s become a suave, debonair, blackmailer. He pretends to act as a go-between for the “real” blackmailer. This way, he keeps his reputation. Until he falls in love with a visiting American woman.

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September 10, 2020December 18, 2021

Flying High (1931) starrring Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood

Flying High is Bert Lahr’s film debut – and a screwball comedy. He’s creating an early prototype of the helicopter … but needs money. Charlotte Greenwood has money, but needs a husband …

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March 22, 2020June 8, 2024

Fireman Save My Child (1932) starring Joe E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp, Lilian Bond, Guy Kibbee

In Fireman Save My Child, Firefighter Joe E. Brown has a gift for baseball, but his only passion is his new firefighting device … And his fiancée, who talks him into joining Major League baseball, to fund his invention. But then he runs into a a pretty gold digger …

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February 1, 2020April 30, 2024

Babes in Arms (1939) starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, directed by Busby Berkeley

In Babes in Arms, Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians’ children to a work farm, but that isn’t that easy.

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December 10, 2019September 22, 2024

42nd Street (1933) starring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warner Baxter

42nd Street is the classic musical, starring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. “You’re going out there a nobody, but coming back as a star!”

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November 1, 2019May 21, 2024

High Pressure (1931) starring William Powell, Evelyn Dale, George Sidney, Frank McHugh

Synopsis

In High Pressure William Powell’s a likeable rogue. He plays a garrulous promoter selling investors on a scheme to make synthetic rubber – from sewage!

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October 29, 2017July 19, 2022

Joy of Living (1938) starring Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee, Lucille Ball, Warren Hymer

Synopsis of Joy of Living

Hard-working and successful Broadway star Maggie Garret (Irene Dunne) is not only emotionally and financially drained by her parasitic family (Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee, Lucille Ball and Warren Hymer) but lately traced by ship-owner Dan Brewster (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). His efforts to gain her attention are unappreciated by Margaret, and she has him arrested. At last, they end up at court and to rescue Dan from a six-month prison sentence – Margaret had something more mild in mind – she agrees to serve as his probation officer. …Joy of Living