Love on Toast (1937) DVD-R

Starring John Payne, Stella Adler, Grant Richards, Kathryn Kane, Benny
Baker
Directed by Ewald Andre Dupont

Print: black/white
Runtime: 65 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E.
A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on the skids. The
plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan"
and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The
Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play
along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn. He
picks a brash radio songstress, who ends up causing all sorts of trouble
at a banquet thrown in her honor -- but who cares now that Mr. Manhattan
has fallen in love with the pretty press agent. John Payne, who'd emerged
as a singing star the year before, is the hero; radio soubrette "Sugar\"
Kane (that was her billing!) is the troublesome gal from Brooklyn; and the
press agent who sets the plot in motion is a movie newcomer named
Stella Ardler, who under her given name of Stella Adler later established
herself as one of America's foremost acting coaches.