Not So Dumb
About Not So Dumb
Dulcy Parker talks through a dinner and says the wrong thing. By the end the mistakes have sorted themselves, and she is not as foolish as the room thought. Marion Davies plays Dulcy. Elliott Nugent and Raymond Hackett are billed with her.
Cast & crew
More about Not So Dumb
King Vidor directed this pre-Code comedy. Wanda Tuchock is the credited writer. It comes from the play Dulcy by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, which Lynn Fontanne played on stage. Oliver T. Marsh photographed it. Blanche Sewell edited it. MGM released it on 17 January 1930. It runs 76 minutes. The studio lost $39,000 on it. A silent version was made in 1923, and the play was filmed again in 1940. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Look
Oliver T. Marsh photographed Davies as Dulcy.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Franklin Pangborn, Julia Faye, and William Holden (the older character actor) are billed.
- Donald Ogden Stewart and George Irving are on the Wikidata cast.
- Davies and Vidor are both listed as producers.
Scenes
- Dulcy talks the evening into a knot, and the knot comes undone without her planning it.
Influenced by
- George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly's play Dulcy
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Not So Dumb)
