Fast and Loose (1930) DVD-R

Starring Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, Frank Morgan, Charles Starrett,
Henry Wadsworth
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer

Print: black/white
Runtime: 70 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Previously filmed in 1925, Avery Hopwood's stage play The Best People
was refashioned by Preston Sturges as the Miriam Hopkins vehicle Fast
and Loose in 1930. Hopkins (in her film debut) and Henry Wadsworth are
cast as Marion and Bertie Lenox, the footloose, prodigal offspring of
wealthy, social-climbing Bronson and Carrie Lenox (Frank Morgan and
Winifred Harris). The parents are shocked beyond belief when daughter
Marion falls in love with low-born car mechanic Henry Morgan (Charles
Starrett), while Bertie becomes enamored of down-to-earth showgirl Alice
O'Neil (Carole Lombard). But mom and dad change their minds when it
turns out the Henry and Alice have more common sense than either of
their grown-up kids. This was the film in which Paramount contract starlet
Carol Lombard changed the spelling of her first name to "Carole" — or,
rather, it was changed for her by a careless title-writer.