Genre	Drama :: Romance
Date Released	5 April 1930
Production	Columbia Pictures Corporation
Distribution	Columbia Pictures
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

Kay Arnold: I feel like getting into trouble!

Kay Arnold: When a dress costs over a hundred bucks, it`s a frock!

Kay Arnold: Hey, what kind of a sap is that guy? Dot Lamar: He`s one of those fellas that even his best friends don`t tell him.

Bill Standish: Ever done any posing before? Kay Arnold: I`m always posing. Bill Standish: How do you spend your nights? Kay Arnold: Re-posing.

Jerry Strong: I`m over 18 years old, you know. Bill Standish: Well, most men never get to be 18. And most women are over 18 when they`re born.

Trivia

According to Frank Capra`s autobiographical book, he dismissed using Barbara Stanwyck when their interview went badly. Frank Fay, Stanwyck`s husband at the time, called Capra up, furious over Stanwyck`s having come home from the interview, crying. Capra blamed Stanwyck, saying she acted like she didn`t even want the part. "Frank, she`s young, and shy, and she`s been kicked around out here. Let me show you a test she made at Warner`s." (The test was for The Noose". (a Broadway play Stanwyck starred in, also a film made - without Stanwyck - in 1928 by John Francis Dillon for First National) and Capra was so impressed that he left the screening immediately to get Harry Cohn, who ran Columbia, to sign up Stanwyck as quickly as possible.

(imdb.com)

Frank Capra wrote the first draft of Ladies of Leisure, before Jo Swerling took over. According to his interview "I went to my hotel, locked myself in my room and for five days pounded out a rewrite story of the plot I`d heard, interrupting the writing only long enough for black coffee, sandwiches and brief snitches of sleep. I was simply writing a newspaper yarn with a longer deadline than usual. The result was Ladies of Leisure."

(imdb.com)

Several sources list Graves` character name incorrectly as "Jerry Strange". (Perhaps his name was spelled thus in the silent version?) But in the soundtrack of the talkie version, spoken dialog clearly identifies his surname as "Strong", including the crucial phone call (trying to save the heroine`s life), in which he says, "I`m Jerry Strong."

(imdb.com)

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