''Goldie Gets Along'' is a 1933 American

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directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring

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, Charles Morton and Sam Hardy. The screenplay was written by

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, based on the 1931 novel of the same title by Hawthorne Hurst.Goble p.235

Synopsis

A young Frenchwoman living with her aunt and uncle in

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has ambitions of making it in Hollywood and sand sets out to

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her wake there. Her adventures involve her briefly being sent to jail for stealing a car and taking part in a series of crooked

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s. Eventually she makes it to Hollywood and tries to target a contract with a big film director, discovering in the process that the fiancée she left at home is now a big movie star.

Cast

as Goldie LaFarge * Charles Morton as Bill Tobin * Sam Hardy as Sam Muldoon *

Nat Pendleton Nathaniel Greene Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967) was an American Olympic wrestler, film actor, and stage performer. His younger brother, Edmund J. Pendleton (1899-1987), was a well-known music composer and choir master ...

as Motorcycle Officer Cassidy *

Lita Chevret Lita Chevret (May 27, 1908 – May 23, 2001) was an American actress who began her career at the genesis of sound films. She appeared in over 60 films between 1929 and 1940, although in most of those she had small or non-billed parts. Life Chev ...

as Marie Gardner *

Arthur Hoyt Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films. Career Born in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1874, Hoyt mad ...

as Mayor Silas C. Simms * Henry Fink as Bob Flynn * Bradley Page as Frank Hawthorne *

Lee Moran Lee Moran (June 23, 1888 – April 24, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Moran was active in vaudeville before he began performing in films at Nestor Studios in 1909. He transcended the silent film era of motio ...

as Sam Kaplan * Reginald Barlow as Uncle Saunders *

Jane Keckley Jane Keckley (September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963) was an American actress of the silent and sound film eras. Biography Keckley was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and went to school there and in Georgia. Before she acted in films, Kec ...

as Aunt Saunders * Harry Bowen as Fred * Gertrude Sutton as Esther * Dell Henderson as Mr. Moon * Leonard Sillman as Amorous Motorist * June Brewster as Nurse * Russ Powell as Saunders' Brother * Martha Mattox as Saunders' Sister-in-Law *

Helen Parrish Helen Virginia Parrish (March 12, 1923 – February 22, 1959) was an American stage and film actress. Career Parrish was born in Columbus, Georgia. She started in movies at the age of 4, getting her first part playing Babe Ruth's daughter in t ...

as Saunders' Child *

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as Mayor's Secretary *

Walter Brennan Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in '' Come and Get It'' (1936), ''Kentucky'' (1938), and '' The Westerner ...

as Stuttering Waiter * Bert Moorhouse as Receptionist

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Tice, Karen W. ''Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life''. Oxford University Press, 2012.

External links

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