''It's All Yours'' is a 1937 American
comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by
Elliott Nugent and starring
Madeleine Carroll,
Francis Lederer and
Mischa Auer. It was produced and distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Columbia Pictures, is an American film Production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company that is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group ...
. It has sometimes been counted as a
screwball comedy
Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, that satirizes the traditional love story. It has secondary charact ...
.
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Plot
Cast
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Madeleine Carroll as Linda Gray
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Francis Lederer as Jimmy Barnes
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Mischa Auer as Baron Rene de Montigny
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Grace Bradley as Constance Marlowe
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Victor Kilian as City Clerk
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George McKay as License Clerk
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Charles Waldron as Alexander Duncan
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J.C. Nugent as E.J. Barnes
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Richard Carle as Judge Reynolds
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Arthur Hoyt as Dabney
References
Bibliography
* Halbout, Grégoire. ''Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
* Pascoe, John. ''Madeleine Carroll: Actress and Humanitarian, from The 39 Steps to the Red Cross''. McFarland, 2020.
* Sikov, Ed. ''Screwball: Hollywood's Madcap Romantic Comedies''. Crown Publishers, 1989.
External links
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1937 films
1937 comedy films
American comedy films
Films directed by Elliott Nugent
American black-and-white films
Columbia Pictures films
Films produced by William Perlberg
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
1930s screwball comedy films
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