Society Fever
About Society Fever
Graham Smith comes to the rundown Prouty house, all that is left after the writer Edgar Allan Prouty died. He is supposed to buy the land for a factory and he takes a room. He falls for Portia, the one practical Prouty. She will not sell the copyrights of her father's forty novels to the executor, Ronald Dawson, for $500. Her sister Lucy wants the Vandergriffs, not the poor man who wants her. Their mother panics when the rich friends are invited to dinner with the eccentric household.
Cast & crew
More about Society Fever
Frank R. Strayer directed. Karen DeWolf wrote it. Maury M. Cohen produced. Chesterfield Pictures distributed. Shooting began 23 May 1935 at Mascot Studios. Invincible copyrighted it on 15 July 1935, LP5667. The film's Wikipedia page dates the release 23 June 1935. The AFI Catalog says 1 October 1935. Lois Wilson plays Portia. Lloyd Hughes plays Graham. Hedda Hopper plays Mrs. Vandergriff. M. A. Anderson photographed it. Roland D. Reed edited.
Themes
Preservation
Public domain in the United States since 1964, after the copyright was not renewed.
Notes
- Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams plays Edgar Prouty. Grant Withers plays Ronald Dawson. Marion Shilling plays Victoria Vandergriff. George Irving plays Mr. Vandergriff.
- Sheila Terry is Lucy. Maidel Turner is Mrs. Prouty. Lois January is Julie. Erville Alderson is Uncle Andy, who will not admit he is nearly deaf.
- A full copy runs 1 hour 7 minutes 4 seconds against the 66-minute listing.
- Another title used for it is Dinner Party.
- The copyright was not renewed. It entered the public domain in the United States in 1964.
Scenes
- Graham takes a room in the Prouty house while he looks at the land.
- Portia turns down $500 for her father's novels.
- The mother faces a dinner with the Vandergriffs in that house.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Society Fever (1935).webm)
