True to the Navy
About True to the Navy
Ruby Nolan works the counter at a San Diego drugstore and keeps company with sailors. She sets her sights on Bull's-Eye McCoy, a gunner's mate who will not settle down.
Cast & crew
More about True to the Navy
Frank Tuttle directed for Paramount. Keene Thompson, Doris Anderson, and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the script. Doris Drought edited. Paramount released the film on May 25, 1930. The story is set in San Diego.
Themes
Making
Tuttle shot Bow and March for Paramount with Victor Milner on camera. The drugstore counter is the main set.
Reviews
The New York Times called it a summer picture that drew a good deal of laughter at its first showing. Allmovie later wrote that the sight of Fredric March in a sailor suit, chewing gum and talking in the film's slang, was worth the price of a ticket by itself.
Look
Victor Milner photographed the film.
Preservation
A viewing copy is on the Internet Archive, and another is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Clara Bow plays Ruby Nolan.
- Fredric March plays Bull's-Eye McCoy.
- Harry Green plays Solomon Bimberg. Sam Hardy plays Brady. Rex Bell plays Eddie.
- Stanley 'Tiny' Morner plays Bob Oldfield.
- Herman J. Mankiewicz is one of the three writers.
- It is a pre-Code Paramount comedy, released the year after Bow's talkie debut.
Scenes
- Ruby works the soda counter while the sailors she knows come and go.
- She picks Bull's-Eye McCoy out of the crowd and he will not play along.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheGirlfriendOfTheNavy1930ClaraBow)
- Wikimedia Commons (True to the Navy.webm)
