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Double Harness  (1933)


In this urbane romantic comedy, socialite Joan Colby callously pursues a San Francisco playboy as a husband, explaining to her disapproving family that marriage is a business prospect, and love, a mere complication to avoid.  But when her new marriage is threatened by her husband's straying eye, Joan sets out on a new project: to make him fall in love.

35mm, b/w, 74 min.  Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Director: John Cromwell.  Based on the play Double Harness by Edward Poor Montgomery.  Screenwriter: Jane Murfin.  Cinematographer: J. Roy Hunt.  Editor: George Nicholls Jr.  With: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne, Henry Stephenson, Lilian Bond.