Men Call It Love

Mar 14, 1931

1h 12m

★ 4.5

A Drama of Men and Their Wives!

Overview

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Men Call It Love Trailers

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Cast

Tony

Adolphe Menjou

Connie

Leila Hyams

Jack

Norman Foster

Helen

Mary Duncan

Callie

Hedda Hopper

Joe

Robert Emmett Keane

Brandt

Harry Northrup

Henry Brooks (uncredited)

Cosmo Kyrle Bellew

Brooks' Butler (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Sam Ellery (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas

Dan, Party Guest (uncredited)

Harrison Greene

Party Guest (uncredited)

Edmund Burns

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

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