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Chasing Trouble is a american film of genre Drama directed by Howard Bretherton released in USA on 30 january 1940 with Frankie Darro

Chasing Trouble (1940)

Chasing Trouble
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Released in USA 30 january 1940
Length 1h4
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating51% 2.5944952.5944952.5944952.5944952.594495

Chasing Trouble is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Bretherton, from Monogram Pictures.

Synopsis

Frankie “Mr. Cupid” O’Brien (Frankie Darro) and Thomas H. Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) are making deliveries for the local florist and manage to get a job for their unemployed friend, Susie Carey (Marjorie Reynolds).

Actors

Frankie Darro

(Jimmy O'Brien)Marjorie Reynolds

(Susie Carey)Mantan Moreland

(Thomas H. Jefferson)Milburn Stone

(Pat Callahan)Cheryl Walker

(Phyllis Bentley)
And :
George Cleveland
Tristram "Tris" Coffin
I. Stanford Jolley
Lillian Elliott
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