Strictly Personal

Mar 17, 1933

1h 11m

★ 5.0

Overview

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Annie Gibson

Marjorie Rambeau

Mary O'Connor

Dorothy Jordan

Thomas ("Tommy") Jefferson Reed

Eddie Quillan

William "Soapy" Gibson

Edward Ellis

Jack Magruder

Louis Calhern

Bessie

Dorothy Burgess

Jerry O'Connor

Rollo Lloyd

Mrs. Laura Castleton

Olive Tell

Hugo Wetzel

Hugh Herbert

Flynn

Thomas E. Jackson

Captain Reardon

DeWitt Jennings

Hope Jennings

Jean Laverty

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