Twentieth Century

May 11, 1934

1h 31m

★ 6.8

The Star of Stars in the Hit of Hits!

Overview

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Twentieth Century Trailers

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Cast

Oscar Jaffe

John Barrymore

Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka

Carole Lombard

Oliver Webb

Walter Connolly

Owen O'Malley

Roscoe Karns

George Smith

Ralph Forbes

Max Jacobs

Charles Lane

Matthew J. Clark

Etienne Girardot

Sadie

Dale Fuller

Oscar McGonigle

Edgar Kennedy

Anita

Billie Seward

Beard #1 (uncredited)

Herman Bing

Sheriff (uncredited)

James Burke

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5.0

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4.7

Little Boy Blue

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6.2

Try Seventeen

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Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. After Jane's ex-boyfriend arrives to help her recover from a car accident, Jones begins to understand just how much he cares for her.

5.4

The Hard Word

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4.9

Fast and Loose

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A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

7.2

Tootsie

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When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

5.8

Big Momma's House

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5.2

Trail of the Pink Panther

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6.5

Cry-Baby

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A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

7.2

The Phantom of the Opera

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A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

5.6

The Marriage of Figaro

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4.0

Goldie

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Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.