Fast and Loose
About Fast and Loose
In a wealthy family, the daughter falls for the chauffeur and the son starts seeing a chorus girl. Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Frank Morgan star. The picture comes from the 1924 play The Best People by David Gray and Avery Hopwood.
Cast & crew
More about Fast and Loose
Fred C. Newmeyer directed this pre-Code romantic comedy. Doris Anderson, Jack Kirkland, and Preston Sturges wrote it. Paramount released it. Charles Starrett, Henry Wadsworth, Winifred Harris, Ilka Chase, and Herbert Yost are billed. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons. A 1939 MGM film of the same title is a different picture.
Themes
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Sturges is one of three writers, not the director.
- The play is The Best People, not a story called Fast and Loose.
- The Commons file is the 1930 Paramount picture.
Scenes
- The daughter's attachment to the chauffeur and the son's attachment to the chorus girl hit the same household.
Influenced by
- David Gray and Avery Hopwood's The Best People
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Fast and Loose)
