Sunday, August 27, 2023

No More Orchids (1932)

There was a Carole Lombard day on TCM recently, and I recorded a few films. I selected this one because Lyle Talbot is the male lead. 

Lombard is the flighty heiress Anne. Talbot plays Tony the "poor" man she falls for, despite being engaged to a prince. Unfortunately, Anne's grandfather is blackmailing her: if she marries the prince, he'll bail out her father's failed bank.

Anne is reluctantly going ahead with the marriage until her father assures her that he has found alternative funding. Anne and Tony can be together because Dad flies his plane into a mountain so his insurance money will save his bank. 

I thought that was a horrible ending. It sours me on the whole film which is well acted with Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, and C. Aubrey Smith. 

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