''Love, Honor, and Oh Baby!'' is a 1933 American

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, starring Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, and George Barbier. A group of stars rounds out the rest of the cast that includes Donald Meek, Lucille Gleason and Varree Teasdale. Adapted from the stage play ''Oh, Promise Me'' (which was also the film's working title) it is ”a situation comedy, carrying a romantic twist”. The film did not do well nor was it well reviewed by ''

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,'' which called it unfunny. The 1940 Universal Pictures film with the almost exact same title is not a remake.

Plot

A secretary plots with her ambulance chasing lawyer, Slim, to compromise her employer for a breach of promise suit. Besides recovering handsomely at the trail, her boyfriend is provided with a case.

Cast

* Slim Summerville as Mark Reed * ZaSu Pitts as Connie Clark * George Barbier as Jasper B. Ogden * Lucille Gleason as Flo Bowen * Verree Teasdale as Elsie Carpenter * Donald Meek as Luther Bowen * Purnell Pratt as Marchall Durant *

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as Louise *

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as Mrs. Brown * Neely Edwards as Mr. Brown * Henry Kolker as The Judge

References

External links

''Love, Honor, and Oh Baby!''
at TCMDB *
Review of film
at ''Variety'' American black-and-white films 1933 comedy films 1933 films American comedy films Films directed by Edward Buzzell 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub