Reaching for the Moon

Dec 29, 1930

1h 13m

★ 5.7

What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.

Overview

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Romance

Production Companies

United Artists

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Cast

Larry Day

Douglas Fairbanks

Vivien Benton

Bebe Daniels

Roger, the Valet

Edward Everett Horton

Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford

Claud Allister

Jimmy Carrington

Jack Mulhall

James Benton

Walter Walker

Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings

June MacCloy

Larry's Secretary

Helen Jerome Eddy

Bing

Bing Crosby

Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Ship's Party Guest (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe

Associate (uncredited)

Lloyd Whitlock

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