The Hot Heiress
1931 film
- March 28, 1931 (1931-03-28)
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The Hot Heiress is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and written by Herbert Fields, with three songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.[1] The film stars Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Dugan, Holmes Herbert and Inez Courtney. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 28, 1931.[2]
Plot
Hap Harrigan is a construction worker who spots socialite Juliette through a window of the building next door and is instantly smitten. She falls for him as well and they begin a romance. But since her family wouldn't approve, she tells them he's actually an architect. Things get sticky when the man she broke up with plans to sabotage their impending engagement.
Cast
- Ben Lyon as 'Hap' Harrigan
- Ona Munson as Juliette
- Walter Pidgeon as Clay
- Tom Dugan as Bill Dugan
- Holmes Herbert as Mr. Hunter
- Inez Courtney as Margie
- Thelma Todd as Lola
- Nella Walker as Mrs. Hunter
Reception
Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times said, "Under the rather self-consciously moviesque title of The Hot Heiress, the team of Fields, Rodgers and Hart offer at the Strand a musical comedy romance of poverty and riches. The story is too fragile and stale even for the films, whatever Mr. Fields may have read about screen stories, but the comedy is bright and the tunes are in the gay and lilting Rodgers and Hart manner."[3]
Preservation status
- A copy resides in the Library of Congress collection.[4] On April 4, 2018, Warner Archive released it as a Region 1 made-on-demand DVD. It also airs occasionally on Turner Classic Movies.
References
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:The Hot Heiress
- ^ "The Hot Heiress (1931) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Hall, Mordaunt (March 14, 1931). "Movie Review - Body and Soul - THE SCREEN; Romantic War Fliers. A Flash in Tin Pan Alley. Hardship in Wilderness. A Musical Comedy Romance". The New York Times. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress (<-book title) p.83 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
External links
- The Hot Heiress at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
- The Hot Heiress at the TCM Movie Database
- The Hot Heiress at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Clarence G. Badger
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- The Danger Girl (1916)
- Haystacks and Steeples (1916)
- The Nick of Time Baby (1916)
- Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
- Whose Baby? (1917)
- The Sultan's Wife (1917)
- The Pullman Bride (1917)
- The Venus Model (1918)
- The Kingdom of Youth (1918)
- Sis Hopkins (1919)
- Through the Wrong Door (1919)
- Almost a Husband (1919)
- Jubilo (1919)
- Water, Water, Everywhere (1920)
- The Strange Boarder (1920)
- The Man Who Lost Himself (1920)
- Jes' Call Me Jim (1920)
- Cupid the Cowpuncher (1920)
- Honest Hutch (1920)
- Guile of Women (1921)
- Boys Will Be Boys (1921)
- An Unwilling Hero (1921)
- Doubling for Romeo (1921)
- A Poor Relation (1921)
- The Dangerous Little Demon (1922)
- Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
- Potash and Perlmutter (1923)
- Red Lights (1923)
- Your Friend and Mine (1923)
- Painted People (1924)
- The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924)
- One Night in Rome (1924)
- New Lives for Old (1925)
- Eve's Secret (1925)
- Paths to Paradise (1925)
- The Golden Princess (1925)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)
- The Rainmaker (1926)
- The Campus Flirt (1926)
- It (1927)
- A Kiss in a Taxi (1927)
- Senorita (1927)
- Man Power (1927)
- Swim Girl, Swim (1927)
- She's a Sheik (1927)
- Red Hair (1928)
- The Fifty-Fifty Girl (1928)
- Hot News (1928)
- Three Week-Ends (1928)
- Paris (1929)
- No, No, Nanette (1930)
- Murder Will Out (1930)
- Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
- The Bad Man (1930)
- The Hot Heiress (1931)
- Woman Hungry (1931)
- Party Husband (1931)
- When Strangers Marry (1933)
- Rangle River (1936)
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