Love Before Breakfast
“It was love at first FIGHT!... So they married in HATE and lived SCRAPPILY ever after!”
1936•1h 10m•6.1•Released
ComedyRomance
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Director
Walter Lang
Writer
Doris Malloy, Preston Sturges, Samuel Hoffenstein, Gertrude Purcell, Herbert Fields, Harry Clork
Languages
English
Studio
Universal Pictures
Cast
Carole Lombard
Kay Colby
Preston Foster
Scott Miller
Cesar Romero
Bill Wadsworth
Janet Beecher
Mrs. Colby
Betty Lawford
Countess Jane Campanella
Forrester Harvey
Chief Steward
Richard Carle
Brinkerhoff
Joyce Compton
Mary Lee
Bert Roach
The Host
Diana Gibson
The Secretary
George Beranger
Charles (uncredited)
Donald Briggs
Stuart Farnum (uncredited)
E. E. Clive
Yacht Captain (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Quartermaster (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Production
Company
Universal Pictures
Producer
Edmund Grainger
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