04 Mar 2014
1000 to 1
Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importantly, off the court.
Gentlemen Are Born
Just out of college and just out of luck...yet they'll found a family on nerve...build a home on bravery...battle the world with a diploma...and defy the world on $18-a-week!
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Top Billed Cast
Franchot Tone Bob Bailey
Jean Muir Trudy Talbot
Margaret Lindsay Joan Harper
Ann Dvorak Susan Merrill
Ross Alexander Tom Martin
Dick Foran Smudge Casey
Charles Starrett Stephen Hornblow
Russell Hicks Newspaper Editor
Robert Light Fred Harper
Addison Richards Martinson
Henry O'Neill Mr. Harper
Arthur Aylesworth Mr. Gillespie
Marjorie Gateson Mrs. Harper
Bradley Page Al Ludlow
Brandon Beach Third Broker
Carlyle Blackwell Jr. Young Man
James P. Burtis Moe
Nina Campana Italian Wife
Eddy Chandler Police Officer
Joseph Crehan Haskins
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