Directed by:
Clarence BrownCinematography:
William H. DanielsCast:
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy, Bess Flowers, Charles Sullivan (more)Plots(1)
Lionel Barrymore shines as Stephen Ashe, a brilliant alcoholic lawyer who successfully defends dashing gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) on a murder charge only to find that his headstrong daughter, Jan (Norma Shearer), has fallen in love with his client. Jan, a fun-loving socialite seeking freedom from her blue-blood upbring, is only too eager to dump her aristocratic boyfriend (Leslie Howard) for the no-good gangster. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Norma Shearer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/339/164339184_73a296.jpg)
Norma Shearer
Canada
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
![Leslie Howard](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272981_371e6f.jpg)
Leslie Howard
UK
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Pygmalion (1938)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
![Lionel Barrymore](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/339/164339173_522bbe.png)
Lionel Barrymore
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Captains Courageous (1937)
West of Zanzibar (1928)
![Clark Gable](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/679/161679154_9122c8.jpg)
Clark Gable
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
It Happened One Night (1934)
![James Gleason](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/049/262/49262589_97cbf6.jpg)
James Gleason
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
![Lucy Beaumont](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/726/159726602_f18a02.jpg)
Lucy Beaumont
UK
Best movies:
The Crowd (1928)
Movie Crazy (1932)
A Free Soul (1931)
![Roscoe Ates](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496795_22a4ae.jpg)
Roscoe Ates
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
City Girl (1930)
Freaks (1932)
![Edward Brophy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496797_44d6c8.jpg)
Edward Brophy
USA
Best movies:
The Cameraman (1928)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Dumbo (1941)
![Bess Flowers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/619/160619287_5a558a.jpg)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Charles Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Fury (1936)
Sam McDaniel
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Union Pacific (1939)
Larry Steers
USA
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
![E. Alyn Warren](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/011/160011766_9ba712.jpg)
E. Alyn Warren
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Double Wedding (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
William Stack
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
![Edward LeSaint](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/232/161232017_b9d74f.jpg)
Edward LeSaint
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
![James Donlan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/732/160732559_97f52d.jpg)
James Donlan
USA
Best movies:
The Front Page (1931)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Test Pilot (1938)
![George Irving](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/816/160816533_8ec123.jpg)
George Irving
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
![Lee Phelps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/045/161045073_80d9c2.jpg)
Lee Phelps
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Carl Stockdale
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Phillips Smalley
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)