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The Golden Arrow is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Alfred E. Green released in USA on 23 may 1936 with Bette Davis
The Golden Arrow (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Golden Arrow (1936) is an American comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Bette Davis and George Brent. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon is based on a story of the same title by Michael Arlen published in the September 14, 1935 issue of Liberty.
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Johnny Jones (Brent) is a penniless newspaper reporter assigned to interview Daisy Appleby (Davis), heiress to the Appleby Facial Creams fortune and the target of numerous suitors anxious to latch onto her wealth. What neither they nor Johnny know is that she is really a cafeteria cashier hired by a public relations team to impersonate the socialite.Actors
Bette Davis
(Daisy Appleby)
George Brent
(Johnny Jones)
Eugene Pallette
(Mr. Samuel Burke-Meyers)
Dick Foran
(Tommy Blake)
Henry O'Neill
(Mr. Appleby)
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