Top billed cast

1. 

   John Barrymore

   Oscar Jaffe

2. 

   Carole Lombard

   Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka

3. 

   Walter Connolly

   Oliver Webb

4. 

   Roscoe Karns

   Owen O'Malley

5. 

   Ralph Forbes

   George Smith

6. 

   Charles Lane

   Max Jacobs

7. 

   Etienne Girardot

   Matthew J. Clark

8. 

   Dale Fuller

   Sadie

9. 

   Edgar Kennedy

   Oscar McGonigle

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Reviews

A review by barrymost

Written by barrymost on 2019-09-05

You'd best hold on tight and don't let go because you're in for quite the ride on board the Twentieth Century. It's screwball comedy taken to the absolute max, and it barely lets up for a minute. It's one ridiculously memorable (or memorably ridiculous) scene after another, with just a couple highlights being Carole Lombard getting stabbed in the behind with a pincushion, and John Barrymore faking a fatal bullet wound in order to get her to sign another contract. John Barrymore is unbelievably and hopelessly hammy, and I mean that in a very good way. The film itself is so completely over t...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• stage
• theater play
• disguise
• rehearsal
• pre-code
• protégé
• ham
• hysterics