Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur

From a play: Napoleon of Broadway by Charles Bruce Millholland

Keywords: Comedy

Broadway svengali Oscar Jaffe meets his former lover, now a success in Hollywood, aboard the train Twentieth Century and attempts to entice her back into his fold. Screwball comedy in the same mould as the later Hawks effort, His Girl Friday (1940). Jaffe is based roughly on real-life director/playwright David Belasco. Entered 2011 into the National Film Registry.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Barrymore	Actor	15-Feb-1882	29-May-1942	Romeo and Juliet
Walter Connolly	Actor	8-Apr-1887	28-May-1940	It Happened One Night
Ralph Forbes	Actor	30-Sep-1896	31-Mar-1951	The Hound of the Baskervilles
Roscoe Karns	Actor	7-Sep-1891	6-Feb-1970	It Happened One Night
Edgar Kennedy	Actor	26-Apr-1890	9-Nov-1948	Mad Wednesday
Charles Lane	Actor	26-Jan-1905	9-Jul-2007	Grumpy character actor
Carole Lombard	Actor	6-Oct-1908	16-Jan-1942	My Man Godfrey

CAST

John Barrymore	...   Oscar "OJ" Jaffe
Carole Lombard	...   Lily Garland
Walter Connolly	...   Oliver Webb
Roscoe Karns	...   Owen O'Malley
Ralph Forbes	...   George Smith
Charles Lane	...   Max Jacobs
Etienne Girardot	...   Mathew J. Clark
Dale Fuller	...   Sadie (maid)
Edgar Kennedy	...   Oscar McGonigle
Billie Seward	...   Anita (Woman on Train)

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