No Time for Comedy (1940)
No Time for Comedy (1940)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5900 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:33:00 | USA | Comedy, Drama, Romance
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5900 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:33:00 | USA | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about comedy and concentrate on writing a tragedy. The end result nearly destroys his career and his marriage.
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Charles Ruggles, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Allyn Joslyn, Clarence Kolb, Robert Greig, J.M. Kerrigan, Lawrence Grossmith, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Herbert Heywood, Frank Faylen, James Burke, Edgar Dearing, Herbert Anderson, Sidney Bracey, Glen Cavender, Mildred Coles, Bess Flowers, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Arthur Housman, Olaf Hytten, Selmer Jackson, Mike Lally, Harold Miller, Jack Mower, Wedgwood Nowell, Paul Panzer
No Time for Comedy (1940)
No Time for Comedy (1940)
IMDb
Gaylord Esterbrook a naive young playwright from Redfield, Minnesota, is summoned to New York by the producers of his play to do some rewrites. However, when producer Richard Benson's butler says no to the project, Benson withdraws his backing and star Linda Paige, who is attracted to the innocent young writer, rallies the cast to perform on a cooperative basis. On the night of the play's successful premiere, Linda proposes to Gay, thus inaugurating a successful personal and professional union. Four years and four comedies later, Gay is stumped for an idea for a new play when he meets Amanda Swift, the manhunting wife of successful financier Philo Swift. After Amanda convinces him that he has been wasting his talent on comedy and should be working on tragedy instead, Gay begins spending more and more time with his "inspiration" and less and less time with his wife. Finally, amidst recriminations, the Esterbrook marriage fails with a much publicized partner swap: Linda will marry Philo, while Gay marries Amanda. On the opening night of Gay's "masterpiece," however, the only tragedy in the theater is the audience's vehement reaction to the play, causing Amanda to hastily abandon her playwright. Meanwhile, Philo's contempt for Gay's naivete forces Linda to realize that she still loves the innocent from Minnesota, and the two are reconciled
Extras
- Trailer
No Time for Comedy (1940)
No Time for Comedy (1940)
