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Fast and Loose is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Fred C. Newmeyer released in USA on 8 november 1930 with Miriam Hopkins

Fast and Loose (1930)

Fast and Loose
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Released in USA 8 november 1930
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating61% 3.0878753.0878753.0878753.0878753.087875

Fast and Loose is a 1930 romantic comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Doris Anderson, Jack Kirkland and Preston Sturges, based on the 1924 play The Best People by David Gray and Avery Hopwood. Fast and Loose was released by Paramount Pictures.

Other films or TV series with identical or similar titles, such as the 1939 MGM detective comedy starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell, are not related to this film.

Synopsis

The Lennox family of Long Island, headed by Bronson (Frank Morgan) and Carrie (Winifred Harris), is wealthy and respectful of tradition, but their children Bertie (Henry Wadsworth) and Marion (Miriam Hopkins) are more irreverent. When Bertie gets involved with a chorus girl, Alice O'Neil (Carole Lombard), and Marion falls in love with Henry Morgan (Charles Starrett), an auto mechanic, the family tries to intervene to prevent their children from marrying beneath themselves.

Actors

Miriam Hopkins

(Marion Lenox)Carole Lombard

(Alice O'Neil)Frank Morgan

(Bronson Lenox)Charles Starrett

(Henry Morgan)Herbert Yost

(George Grafton)
And :
Ilka Chase
Herschel Mayall
David Hutcheson
Herschel Mayall
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