Love Before Breakfast *** (1936, Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 6756

Director Walter Lang’s 1936 movie is a frothy enough comedy romance vehicle for Carole Lombard as Kay Colby, a much-courted social butterfly.

Based on Faith Baldwin’s novel Spinster Dinner, there are no surprises in the screenplay by Herbert Fields and Preston Sturges. But the star’s lightness of touch and Lang’s nimble, pacy handling help to make a dullish script entertaining and bring out the best in the gags that are here.

Lombard’s co-stars Preston Foster and Cesar Romero play Scott Miller and Bill Wadsworth, the romantic rival guys out to get the much-courted Kay.

Love Before Breakfast is directed by Walter Lang, runs 70 minutes, is released by Universal, is written by Herbert Fields and Preston Sturges, is shot in black and white by Ted Tetzlaff, is produced by Edmund Grainger, is scored by Franz Waxman and Arthur Morton, and designed by Albert S D’Agostino.

Also in the cast are Janet Beecher, Bert Roach, Betty Lawford, Robert Kent, Richard Carle, Joyce Compton, Forrester Harvey, William Arnold, Jimmy Aye, George Bernager, Donald Briggs, Ralph Brooks, Ed Burton, Howard Christie, E E Clive, Nick De Ruiz, Lester Dorr, Edward Earle, Jay Eaton, Earl Eby, Pat Flaherty, Nan Grey, John Dusty King, Harry Lombard, Ralph Malone, Alphonse Martell, Bert Moorhouse, Dennis O’Keefe, Albert Richman, Charles Tannen, Bob Thorn, Sammee Tong, David Tyrell, Ada Mae Vaughn, Theodore von Eltz and David Worth.

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 6756

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