Lady for a Day (Original title)Beggars' Holiday (Working title)
Date: 1933 (Copyright)Country: USADirected by: Frank Capra
Synopsis: An old New York street apple seller is helped by a gangster friend to appear a "lady for a day" when her daughter, who doesn't know how the mother earns her living, comes to visit with her titled fiance.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 13 September 1933Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Date: October 1933Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 83 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures
Date: 1933 (Copyright)Country: USADirected by: Frank Capra
Synopsis: An old New York street apple seller is helped by a gangster friend to appear a "lady for a day" when her daughter, who doesn't know how the mother earns her living, comes to visit with her titled fiance.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 13 September 1933Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Date: October 1933Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 83 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures
Credits
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©: Columbia Pictures Corporation, a Columbia production: Columbia Pictures Corporation, President, Columbia Pictures Corporation: Harry Cohn, Assistant Director: C.C. Coleman Jr, Screen Play and Dialogue: Robert Riskin, From the story ['Madame La Gimp'] by: Damon Runyon, Photography: Joseph Walker, Camera Operator: André Barlatier, Assistant Camera: George Kelly, Michael Walsh, Chief Electrician: George Hager, Grip: James Lloyd, Stills Photography: William Fraker, Film Editor: Gene Havlick, Editorial Assistant: Charles Nelson, Art Director: Stephen Goossón, Properties: George Rhein, Costumes: Robert Kalloch, Musical Director: Bakaleinikoff, Sound: Edward Bernds, Assistant Recording Engineer: Bruce Libbitt, Sound System: Western Electric Noiseless Recording, General Press Agent: George Brown
Cast
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Warren William (Dave the Dude), May Robson (Apple Annie/Mrs.E. Worthington-Manville), Guy Kibbee (Judge Henry D. Blake), Glenda Farrell (Missouri Martin), Ned Sparks (Happy McGuire), Walter Connolly (Count Romero), Jean Parker (Louise), Nat Pendleton (Shakespeare), Barry Norton (Carlos Romero), Hobart Bosworth (governor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (Inspector MacCreary), Wallis Clark ([commissioner]), Halliwell Hobbes ([John, the butler]), Irving Bacon ([pool hall dupe]), Samuel S. Hinds ([mayor]), Ward Bond ([mounted policeman]), Blind Dad Mills ([blind man]), Leo White ([couturier])