Director John Stah;
Awards? None I know of
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, George Murphy, Edgar Bergen, Rita Johnson, Ann Sheridan, Ernest Cossart, Frank Jenks, Eve Arden, Mark Danielsplot summary: the bastard daughter of famous actor shows up in NY wanting to act...Dad doesn't know of her existence but she has a letter from her mom introducing her to her dad. Dad is glad to meet her--sort-of--but can't bare to tell the world he is a father of a young woman who is the same age as the woman he is about to marry (his 4th wife). If people knew his real age it might hurt his career.
So dad/daughter keep their true connection a secret--resulting in lots of rumors about them and --and of course their respective fiancees misread the relationship and abandon them.
Eventually dad plans to tell the world he has a wonderful daughter--at an important event-- but he gets drunk and blows it. He then gets hit by a car and before he can tell the reporters the truth he dies. The faithful daughter won't tell after he is dead because she doesn't want to sully his name. there is not a woman in the story who does not live entirely for Her Man
sez says: This movie is as bad as the plot sounds. I've certainly seen worse movies--but not a whole lot of them. This is of a TYPE of story that was common in the 1930's-- that is, a story in which a single secret (ie we are father and daughter) is not shared publicly--and it is the central element in the plot that makes the story go. If the fact that they were father/daughter had been known none of the problems in the story would exist...I really mean NONE at all. These are very hard to watch today becasue the keeping of the 'secret' seems absurd.
mjc: I just wanted HER to spit it out: "I am his daughter, not his latest".
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