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Private Affairs is a film of genre Comedy directed by Albert S. Rogell released in USA on 5 july 1940 with Nancy Kelly
Private Affairs (1940)
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Add to a movie listPrivate Affairs is a 1940 film comedy starring Nancy Kelly, with a supporting cast including Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, and Robert Cummings. The movie was directed by Albert S. Rogell.
Roland Young had played the title role three years earlier in the light comedy classic Topper opposite Constance Bennett and Cary Grant.
Synopsis
Amos Bullerton from Boston is the first in a long line of Patrician aristocrats to marry a commoner, which makes his father, Noble, furious and prompts him to remove Amos from his will. Amos takes up residence in New York and starts working as a stock broker.Actors
Nancy Kelly
(Jane Bullerton)
Hugh Herbert
(Angus McPherson)
Roland Young
(Amos Bullerton)
Robert Cummings
(Jimmy Nolan)
Montagu Love
(Noble Bullerton)
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