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Lobby card for the film. Platinum Blonde is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy motion picture directed by Frank Capra, written by Jo Swerling and starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow. Platinum Blonde was Robert Williams' last screen appearance; he died of peritonitis three days after the film's October 31 release.
Platinum Blonde: Directed by Frank Capra. With Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes. A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1931-10-31
Platinum Blonde (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Bluenoses Editor Conroy (Edmund Breese), newsman Stew Smith (Robert Williams) and girl-Friday Gallagher (Loretta Young) are introduced in the opening to Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde, 1931.
- Frank R. Capra, C. C. Coleman
- Loretta Young
Platinum Blonde (1931) Platinum Blonde (1931) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis Investigative journalist Stew Smith (Robert Williams) has a reputation for being merciless in his reporting. In ...
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- Jean Harlow
- Frank Capra
- Romance, Comedy
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter. Frank Capra. Director. Harry Chandlee. Story. Douglas W. Churchill.
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change. Reporter Gallagher loves reporter Smith who marries Ann. He's soon bored being married to a socialite and asks Gallagher to help him write a play. She arrives with a bunch of reporters and the mansion turns ...
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As obscure as Platinum Blonde may be, it’s easily the best-known of Williams’ film credits, and it indicates just what promise he held as a screen actor. His performance as the reporter, mingling tipsy flights of poetry with pearls of cynical wit—and offset by a lovely understated performance from Loretta Young—is the mainspring that drives the film.
