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Piccadilly Jim is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 14 august 1936 with Robert Montgomery
Piccadilly Jim (1936)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 august 1936
Length 1h35
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
OriginUSA
Themes La bande dessinée
Rating66%
Piccadilly Jim is a 1936 romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film is based on the novel Piccadilly Jim written by P. G. Wodehouse.
Synopsis
American caricaturist Jim Crocker is a popular womanizer in London known by his pen name 'Piccadilly Jim'. He supports his father James, an out-of-work actor with a great admiration for Shakespeare, but also with an inability to remember lines from the Bard's work. Most characters in the film describe James as a ham. Jim lives with his impeccable valet, Bayliss. Jim is happy when he finds out that his father is to be engaged to Eugenia Willis, until it turns out that Eugenia's overbearing sister, Nesta Pett, refuses to give permission for the marriage due to doubts of James' sincerity and his financial background. One morning, James' tries to introduce the Petts to his son, whom he describes as an artist, but Jim, who has stayed out all night drinking again, comes staggering in to find that Nesta Pett has discovered that the "artist" is a caricaturist, which does not impress her.Actors
Robert Montgomery
(James Crocker, Jr.)
Frank Morgan
(James Crocker, Sr. / Count Olav Osric)
Madge Evans
(Ann Chester)
Billie Burke
(Eugenia Willis, Nesta's Sister)
Eric Blore
(Bayliss, Jim's Butler)
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