It Pays to Advertise (film)
| It Pays to Advertise | |
|---|---|
 Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Frank Tuttle |
| Written by |
Ethel Doherty Arthur Kober |
| Based on |
It Pays to Advertise by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett |
| Starring |
Norman Foster Carole Lombard |
| Cinematography | Archie Stout |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 63 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It Pays to Advertise is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, based on the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, starring Norman Foster and Carole Lombard, and directed by Frank Tuttle.[1]
Plot
Rodney Martin sets up a soap business to rival his father. With the help of an advertising expert and his secretary, Mary, he develops a successful marketing campaign. His father ends up buying the company from him, while Rodney and Mary fall in love.[2]
Cast
- Norman Foster as Rodney Martin
- Carole Lombard as Mary Grayson
- Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher as Ambrose Pearle
- Eugene Pallette as Cyrus Martin
- Lucien Littlefield as Adams
- Judith Wood as Countess de Beaurien (credited as Helen Johnson)
- Louise Brooks as Thelma Temple
- Morgan Wallace as L. R. McChesney
- Tom Kennedy as Perkins
- Marcia Manners as Miss Burke
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as Office Boy (credited as Junior Coghlan)
- John Howell as Johnson
- John Sinclair as Window Cleaner
Reception
The film received positive reviews. Photoplay wrote that it has "plenty of speed and lots of laughs", and praised the "perfect cast".[2]
References
- ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..It Pays to Advertise
- 1 2 Ott, Frederick W. (1972). The Films of Carole Lombard. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0806502786.
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