Let Us Be Gay

Let Us Be Gay
Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard
Produced by	Robert Z. Leonard Irving Thalberg
Written by	Frances Marion Lucille Newmark
Based on	Let Us Be Gay by Rachel Crothers
Starring	Norma Shearer
Cinematography	Norbert Brodine
Edited by	Basil Wrangell
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	August 9, 1930 (1930-08-09)
Running time	79 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English

Let Us Be Gay is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film produced and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and stars Norma Shearer. It was filmed concurrently with and based upon the 1929 play by Rachel Crothers starring Tallulah Bankhead, which ran for 128 performances at London's Lyric Theater.^[1]^[2]^[3] Critics generally preferred Tallulah's rendition to Shearer's.

Cast

Norma Shearer - Mrs. Katherine Brown
Marie Dressler - Mrs. Bouccy Bouccicault
Rod La Rocque - Bob Brown
Gilbert Emery - 'Towney' Townley
Hedda Hopper - Madge Livingston
Raymond Hackett - Bruce Keane
Sally Eilers - Diane
Tyrell Davis - Wallace Granger
Wilfred Noy - Whitman, the Butler
Sybil Grove - Perkins, a Maid
Mary Gordon - Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)
Dickie Moore - Young Bobby (uncredited)

DVD release

The film was released on DVD through the Warner Archive Collection.

References

↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Let Us Be Gay
↑ Let Us Be Gay as produced on Broadway at the Little Theatre, February 19, 1929 to December 1929, 353 performances; IBDb.com

External links

The films of Robert Z. Leonard

The Master Key (1914)
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings (1915)
Secret Love (1916)
The Plow Girl (1916)
On Record (1917)
A Mormon Maid (1917)
The Primrose Ring (1917)
At First Sight (1917)
Face Value (1918)
The Bride's Awakening (1918)
Danger, Go Slow (1918)
The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
The Miracle of Love (1919)
April Folly (1920)
The Restless Sex (1920)
The Gilded Lily (1921)
Heedless Moths (1921)
Peacock Alley (1922)
Fascination (1922)
Broadway Rose (1922)
Jazzmania (1923)
Mademoiselle Midnight (1924)
Circe, the Enchantress (1924)
Cheaper to Marry (1925)
Time, the Comedian (1925)
Bright Lights (1925)
Dance Madness (1926)
Mademoiselle Modiste (1926)
The Waning Sex (1926)
A Little Journey (1927)
The Demi-Bride (1927)
Adam and Evil (1927)
Tea for Three (1927)
Baby Mine (1928)
The Cardboard Lover (1928)
A Lady of Chance (1928)
Marianne (1929)
The Divorcee (1930)
In Gay Madrid (1930)
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
The Bachelor Father (1931)
Five and Ten (1931)
It's a Wise Child (1931)
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Lovers Courageous (1932)
Strange Interlude (1932)
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Dancing Lady (1933)
Outcast Lady (1934)
After Office Hours (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Escapade (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Maytime (1937)
The Firefly (1937)
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
Broadway Serenade (1939)
New Moon (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
When Ladies Meet (1941)
We Were Dancing (1942)
Stand By for Action (1942)
The Man from Down Under (1943)
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
The Secret Heart (1946)
Cynthia (1947)
B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
The Bribe (1949)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Grounds for Marriage (1951)
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
The Clown (1953)
The Great Diamond Robbery (1953)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
The King's Thief (1955)
Beautiful but Dangerous (1955)

Irving Thalberg

Producer	Foolish Wives (1922) Merry-Go-Round (1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) His Hour (1924) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Greed (1924) The Unholy Three (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) The Tower of Lies (1925) The Big Parade (1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Torrent (1926) La Bohème (1926) Brown of Harvard (1926) The Road to Mandalay (1926) The Temptress (1926) Valencia (1926) Flesh and the Devil (1926) Twelve Miles Out (1927) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) London After Midnight (1927) The Crowd (1928) Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Show People (1928) West of Zanzibar (1928) The Broadway Melody (1929) The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) Voice of the City (1929) Where East Is East (1929) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Hallelujah! (1929) His Glorious Night (1929) The Kiss (1929) Anna Christie (1930) Redemption (1930) The Divorcee (1930) The Rogue Song (1930) The Big House (1930) The Unholy Three (1930) Let Us Be Gay (1930) Billy the Kid (1930) Way for a Sailor (1930) A Lady's Morals (1930) Inspiration (1931) Trader Horn (1931) The Secret Six (1931) A Free Soul (1931) Just a Gigolo (1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) The Guardsman (1931) The Champ (1931) Possessed (1931) Private Lives (1931) Mata Hari (1931) Freaks (1932) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Grand Hotel (1932) Letty Lynton (1932) As You Desire Me (1932) Red-Headed Woman (1932) Smilin' Through (1932) Red Dust (1932) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) Strange Interlude (1932) Tugboat Annie (1933) Bombshell (1933) Eskimo (1933) Riptide (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) The Merry Widow (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) No More Ladies (1935) China Seas (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) A Night at the Opera (1935) Riffraff (1936) Romeo and Juliet (1936) Camille (1936) Maytime (1937) A Day at the Races (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) The Good Earth (1937) Marie Antoinette (1938)

Writer	The Trap (1922)

People	Norma Shearer (wife) Irving Thalberg, Jr. (son)

Related	The Love of the Last Tycoon

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