03 Jan 1931
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Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Convention City
We're off to - "Convention City"
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Top Billed Cast
Joan Blondell Nancy Lorraine
Adolphe Menjou T.R. (Ted) Kent
Dick Powell Jerry Ford
Mary Astor Arlene Dale
Guy Kibbee George Ellerbe
Frank McHugh Will Goodwin
Hugh Herbert Hotstetter
Grant Mitchell J.B. Honeywell
Ruth Donnelly Mrs. Ellerbe
Patricia Ellis Claire Honeywell
Hobart Cavanaugh Wendell Orchard
Egon Brecher Zorb
Sheila Terry Mrs. Kent
Gordon Westcott Phil Lorraine / Frank Wilson
Barbara Rogers Lulu
Harry C. Bradley Graham
Lorin Raker Clerk
Samuel S. Hinds McAllister
William Burress Customer (as William Burress)
Virginia Howell Mrs. Orchard
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