Love Before Breakfast

Mar 9, 1936

1h 10m

★ 5.8

It was love at first FIGHT!... So they married in HATE and lived SCRAPPILY ever after!

Overview

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Love Before Breakfast Trailers

Cast

Kay Colby

Carole Lombard

Scott Miller

Preston Foster

Bill Wadsworth

Cesar Romero

Mrs. Colby

Janet Beecher

Countess Jane Campanella

Betty Lawford

Chief Steward

Forrester Harvey

Brinkerhoff

Richard Carle

Mary Lee

Joyce Compton

The Host

Bert Roach

The Secretary

Diana Gibson

Charles (uncredited)

George Beranger

Stuart Farnum (uncredited)

Donald Briggs

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