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Live, Love and Learn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) sends Robert Montgomery forth from a whimsical, penniless life in Manhattan's Washington Square section into battle against the stultifying wiles of Mammon. He is armed with artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When...
...business. Born in Bartow, Ga., he went to work in the Maxwell Motors assembly line at 15, at 18 started night school in the Georgia School of Technology, was in the used car trade for himself by 1924, went broke in the Florida boom collapse in 1926. Standing penniless on a Miami street corner, he saw a man trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped at a garage, sold the car for $500, set himself up selling cars on his $200 profit. In 1927 he sold over...
...generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time. Thereupon Wendy leaves the bridegroom...
...pressroom of the Plimpton Press, Alfred A. Knopf Jr, 19-year-old son of the Manhattan publisher, left Norwood, Mass, with $15 and an ambition to "make his way" in the West. Week later, after his father had aroused the entire U. S., he turned up, penniless and hungry, in a Salt Lake City police station, was promptly packed off home via air. His conclusions: "Truck drivers are the friendliest people of all; they bought me a couple of meals and let me ride practically all the way. And one of them gave me-how do you say it?- four...
...story, credited to Comedian Gregory Ratoff, concerns the ambition of fluffy Judith Poe Wells (Alice Faye) to write a searching play, one thing never achieved by her illustrious great grandfather Edgar Allan Poe.* When penniless Miss Wells consumes three orders of spaghetti in a Broadway restaurant, the proprietor and his violinist (Rubinoff) let her sing for her supper. That is enough to convince Diner George Macrae (Don Ameche), a successful musical comedy librettist, that Judith is wasting her time as a playwright. Although this impression is confirmed when Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North...