Let Us Be Gay
About Let Us Be Gay
Kitty Brown (Norma Shearer) lets herself become dowdy for her husband Bob (Rod La Rocque), and he leaves when she will not forgive an affair. Three years later the fashionable divorcée is invited to a country weekend by Mrs. Bouccicault (Marie Dressler), who wants Kitty to pry Bob away from her granddaughter Diane. Bob does not know the polished guest is his former wife until the party forces the recognition. Diane breaks with him. Kitty refuses him, then takes him back.
Cast & crew
More about Let Us Be Gay
Robert Z. Leonard directed and produced with Irving Thalberg. Frances Marion and Lucille Newmark adapted Rachel Crothers's 1929 play. MGM released the film on August 9, 1930. Norbert Brodine photographed it.
Themes
Background
An MGM pre-Code comedy taken straight from Crothers's 1929 play and released in August 1930.
Notes
- On stage, Tallulah Bankhead played Kitty. The London run at the Lyric Theatre was 128 performances.
- Published comment at the time preferred Bankhead's Kitty to Shearer's.
- Hedda Hopper plays Madge Livingston. Gilbert Emery plays Townley. Sally Eilers plays Diane. Raymond Hackett plays Bruce.
- Dickie Moore is among the billed children.
Scenes
- Bob walks into the weekend party and does not recognize Kitty.
- Their children, brought in by the nurse, interrupt his plan to marry Diane.
Influenced by
- Let Us Be Gay (1929 play by Rachel Crothers)
Also available
- Warner Archive Collection DVD
- Wikimedia Commons (Let Us Be Gay.webm)
