Drama ·Music ·Romance · United States of America · 1934 · 1h 15m

Gentlemen Are Born

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Director
Alfred E. Green
Cast
Franchot Tone as Bob Bailey Jean Muir as Trudy Talbot Margaret Lindsay as Joan Harper Ann Dvorak as Susan Merrill Ross Alexander as Tom Martin Dick Foran as Smudge Casey
Crew
Eugene Solow — Screenplay Robert Lee Johnson — Screenplay Robert Lee Johnson — Story
Tagline

Just out of college and just out of luck...yet they'll found a family on nerve...build a home on bravery...battle the world with a diploma...and defy the world on $18-a-week!

Synopsis

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

Mood & Themes
collegegreat depression
Key Collaborators
Alfred E. Green Director Eugene Solow Screenplay Robert Lee Johnson Screenplay Robert Lee Johnson Story
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