''Discarded Lovers'' is a 1932 American
Pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship gui ...
mystery film directed by
Fred C. Newmeyer.
Plot
A blonde bombshell movie star is murdered and her body is found in a car. She had just finished doing the last and final scenes in a film. Irma Gladden was a sexy blonde bombshell who was having many tangled romantic affairs. She was loose and easy. In solving the murder there are the usual friends, police, reporters and employees who administer their help to the police captain and the police sergeant. Suspects abound and include Irma's husband, a jealous wife, a boy friend and an ex-husband.
Cast
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Natalie Moorhead as Irma Gladden
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Russell Hopton
Harry Russell Hopton (February 18, 1900 – April 7, 1945) was an American film actor and director.
Biography
Hopton was born in New York City, New York. He appeared in 110 films between 1926 and 1945, often playing streetwise characters f ...
as Bob Adair
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J. Farrell MacDonald as Chief Sommers
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Barbara Weeks as Valerie Christine
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Jason Robards Sr. as Rex Forsythe
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Roy D'Arcy as Andre Leighton
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Sharon Lynn as Mrs. Sibley
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Fred Kelsey as Sgt. Delaney
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Robert Frazer as Warren Sibley
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Jack Trent as Ralph Norman, the chauffeur
External links
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1932 films
American mystery films
American black-and-white films
1932 mystery films
1930s English-language films
Films directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
1930s American films
English-language mystery films
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