''What a Man'' is a 1930 American

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romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film directed by

George Crone George Crone (1894–1966), also known as George J. Crone, was an American director and editor, whose career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. He began his career cutting the silent film '' Let's Be Fashionable'' in 1920. Between that f ...

and starring Reginald Denny,

Miriam Seegar Miriam Seegar Whelan (September 1, 1907 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress in silent film and early sound films. Early life As the Seegar sisters started acting and singing, Frank Seegar left teaching to open a hardware store in effo ...

and Harvey Clark. It was an adaptation of the play ''They All Want Something'' by Courtenay Savage, which was itself based on a novel by

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. A separate Spanish language version ''

Thus Is Life ''Thus is Life'' (Spanish: ''Así es la vida'') is a 1930 American Spanish language romantic comedy film directed by George Crone and starring José Bohr, Delia Magana and Lolita Vendrell. It was produced as the Spanish version of the English ...

'' was made at the same time. The film was remade in 1938 as ''

Merrily We Live ''Merrily We Live'' is a 1938 comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and written by Eddie Moran and Jack Jevne. It stars Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne and features Ann Dvorak, Bonita Granville, Billie Burke, Tom Brown, Alan Mowbray, ...

''. It is also known by the alternative title ''The Gentleman Chauffeur''.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:''..What a Man!''
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Premise

A British ex-

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officer moves to America, but struggles to find work. After he is employed as a chauffeur to a wealthy family, he falls in love with his employer's daughter.

Cast

* Reginald Denny as Wade Rawlins *

as Eileen Kilbourne * Harvey Clark as Mr. Kilbourne *

Lucille Ward Lucille Ward (February 25, 1880 – August 8, 1952) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 and 1944. She was born and died in Dayton, Ohio. Ward's career began in 1907 when she acted in a production ...

as Mrs. Kilbourne * Carlyle Moore Jr. as Kane Kilbourne * Anita Louise as Marion Kilbourne * Norma Drew as Elsie Thayer * Christiane Yves as Marquise de la Fresne * Charles Coleman as William, the Butler *

Greta Granstedt Greta Granstedt (born Irene Louise Granstedt; July 13, 1907 – October 7, 1987) was an American film and television actress. Early life Irene "Greta" Granstedt was the second child of Theodore and Emma Granstedt, born in Scandia, Kansas. ...

as Hanna, the Maid

References

Bibliography

* Waldman, Harry. ''Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995''. Scarecrow Press, 1996.

External links

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