Just a Gigolo (1931 film)

Just a Gigolo
A screenshot from the film
Directed by	Jack Conway
Produced by	Irving Thalberg
Written by	Fanny Hatton Frederic Hatton
Based on	Dancing Partner 1930 play by Alexander Engel Alfred Grünwald
Starring	William Haines Irene Purcell C. Aubrey Smith Charlotte Granville
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh
Edited by	Frank Sullivan
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	June 6, 1931 (1931-06-06)
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United States

Just a Gigolo is a 1931 American Pre-Code is a romantic comedy film released by MGM. It was directed by Jack Conway, produced by Irving Thalberg and starred William Haines, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith, and Ray Milland. It was adapted from the 1930 play of the same name, which also starred Irene Purcell in the role of Roxana 'Roxy' Hartley. The film features the song "Just a Gigolo".

Plot summary

Lord Robert Brummell (William Haines), a bachelor is ordered by his wealthy uncle Lord George Hampton (C. Aubrey Smith) to settle down with a wife. Not wishing to tie himself down to any one girl, Brummell endeavors to prove that no woman is worthy of him by pretending to be a gigolo.^[1]

Cast

William Haines as Lord Robert 'Bobby' Brummel
Irene Purcell as Roxana 'Roxy' Hartley
C. Aubrey Smith as Lord George Hampton
Charlotte Granville as Lady Jane Hartley
Lilian Bond as Lady Agatha Carrol
Ray Milland as Freddie
Yola d'Avril as Pauline, Roxana's Maid

References

↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/just-a-gigolo-v80048

External links

Just a Gigolo at the Internet Movie Database
Just a Gigolo at the TCM Movie Database
Just a Gigolo at AllMovie
Just a Gigolo at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by Jack Conway

The Penitentes (1915)
Her Decision (1918)
You Can't Believe Everything (1918)
The Servant in the House (1921)
Across the Dead-Line (1922)
Step on It! (1922)
The Prisoner (1923)
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
The Only Thing (1925)
Soul Mates (1925)
Brown of Harvard (1926)
The Understanding Heart (1927)
Twelve Miles Out (1927)
Bringing Up Father (1928)
The Smart Set (1928)
While the City Sleeps (1928)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Untamed (1929)
They Learned About Women (1930)
The Unholy Three (1930)
New Moon (1930)
The Easiest Way (1931)
Just a Gigolo (1931)
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Hell Below (1933)
The Solitaire Man (1933)
The Nuisance (1933)
Viva Villa! (1934)
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
The Gay Bride (1934)
One New York Night (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Saratoga (1937)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Boom Town (1940)
Love Crazy (1941)
Honky Tonk (1941)
Crossroads (1942)
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
Dragon Seed (1944)
High Barbaree (1947)
The Hucksters (1947)
Julia Misbehaves (1948)

Irving Thalberg

Producer	Foolish Wives (1922) Merry-Go-Round (1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) His Hour (1924) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Greed (1924) The Unholy Three (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) The Tower of Lies (1925) The Big Parade (1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Torrent (1926) La Bohème (1926) Brown of Harvard (1926) The Road to Mandalay (1926) The Temptress (1926) Valencia (1926) Flesh and the Devil (1926) Twelve Miles Out (1927) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) London After Midnight (1927) The Crowd (1928) Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Show People (1928) West of Zanzibar (1928) The Broadway Melody (1929) The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) Voice of the City (1929) Where East Is East (1929) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Hallelujah (1929) His Glorious Night (1929) The Kiss (1929) Anna Christie (1930) Redemption (1930) The Divorcee (1930) The Rogue Song (1930) The Big House (1930) The Unholy Three (1930) Let Us Be Gay (1930) Billy the Kid (1930) Way for a Sailor (1930) A Lady's Morals (1930) Inspiration (1931) Trader Horn (1931) The Secret Six (1931) A Free Soul (1931) Just a Gigolo (1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) The Guardsman (1931) The Champ (1931) Possessed (1931) Private Lives (1931) Mata Hari (1931) Freaks (1932) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Grand Hotel (1932) Letty Lynton (1932) As You Desire Me (1932) Red-Headed Woman (1932) Smilin' Through (1932) Red Dust (1932) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) Strange Interlude (1932) Tugboat Annie (1933) Bombshell (1933) Eskimo (1933) Riptide (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) The Merry Widow (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) No More Ladies (1935) China Seas (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) A Night at the Opera (1935) Riffraff (1936) Romeo and Juliet (1936) Camille (1936) Maytime (1937) A Day at the Races (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) The Good Earth (1937) Marie Antoinette (1938)

Writer	The Trap (1922)

People	Norma Shearer (wife) Irving Thalberg, Jr. (son)

Related	The Love of the Last Tycoon

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