The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

1932 film

  • May 28, 1932 (1932-05-28) (United States)
Running time
73 mins.CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy.[1] The script was based on the play Tinsel Girl by Maurine Dallas Watkins, and was screened by the UCLA Film & Television Archive[2]

Plot

Molly Louvain is a young woman who has a baby out of wedlock. She falls in with a career criminal and, after he is shot by police, she hides out with a former bellhop who wants to marry her and make her "respectable." But, instead, she falls in love with Scotty Cornell, a fast-talking cynical newspaper reporter, who does not realize that she is, in fact, the very gun moll that he has been writing about in his columns. As she is about to go to prison, he discovers her identity, but pledges to stick by her nevertheless.

Cast

  • Ann Dvorak as Madeleine Maude 'Molly' Louvain
  • Lee Tracy as Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
  • Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Cook
  • Guy Kibbee as Pop, a Policeman
  • Leslie Fenton as Nicky Grant
  • Frank McHugh as Skeets, a Reporter
  • Evalyn Knapp as Doris
  • Charles B. Middleton as Police Captain Slade
  • Mary Doran as Dance Hall Girl
  • Thomas E. Jackson as Police Sergeant
  • C. Henry Gordon as Detective Martin
  • George Chandler as Reporter
  • Louise Beavers as Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
  • Wade Boteler as Detective (uncredited)
  • Selmer Jackson as Detective Charlie (uncredited)
  • Hank Mann as Harley, a Reporter (uncredited)
  • Snub Pollard as B. J. Pratt, Bill Collector (uncredited)
  • Jacquie Lyn as Ann Marie (uncredited)

References

  1. ^ The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932), American Film Institute Catalogue, retrieved May 4, 2024
  2. ^ Female / The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, UCLA Library - Film & Television Archive, January 6, 2018, retrieved May 4, 2024

External links

  • The Strange Love of Molly Louvain at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • The Strange Love of Molly Louvain at the TCM Movie Database
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