Kept Husbands
About Kept Husbands
Dick Brunton, a supervisor in Arthur Parker's steel mill, runs in and saves two men. Parker offers him a thousand dollars. He will not take it. Parker's daughter Dot, used to the money, marries him and then wants him kept on her terms. He walks out, ready to quit the company, and goes to the station for a train to St. Louis. She finds him there. He takes the job Parker has offered after all. She agrees to live on his salary.
Cast & crew
More about Kept Husbands
Lloyd Bacon directed. Louis Sarecky wrote the story. Forrest Halsey and Alfred Jackson wrote the screenplay. William LeBaron produced it. Jack MacKenzie photographed it. Max Steiner wrote the music. RKO released it in the United States on 22 February 1931. It runs 76 minutes. Dorothy Mackaill plays Dot Parker Brunton. Joel McCrea plays Dick Brunton. Robert McWade plays Arthur Parker. Florence Roberts plays Mrs. Parker. Ned Sparks plays Hughie Hanready. Mary Carr plays Mrs. Brunton. Clara Kimball Young plays Mrs. Henrietta Post.
Themes
Background
RKO released it on 22 February 1931, with the argument in the picture about living on a salary.
Making
Bacon shot Sarecky's story at RKO with McCrea as the mill man and Mackaill as the daughter who has to take his pay.
Look
Jack MacKenzie photographed the mill, the Parker house, and the station.
Music
Max Steiner wrote the music.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The thousand dollars is a reward for the rescue. Dick turns it down.
- Bryant Washburn plays Charlie Bates. Lita Chevret plays Gwen.
- The station is the place she catches him, not the mill.
- The destination on the ticket is St. Louis.
Scenes
- Dick refuses Parker's thousand dollars.
- He tells Dot the marriage is over and heads for the station.
- She finds him before the train to St. Louis.
Also available
- Internet Archive (KeptHusbands)
- Wikimedia Commons (Kept Husbands (1931).webm)
