Reaching for the Moon (1930)
What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.
1930 · NR · 1h 13m · Comedy, Music, Romance
Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writers: Irving Berlin, Edmund Goulding, Elsie Janis
Cinematography: Robert H. Planck, Ray June
Editor: Lloyd Nosler, Hal C. Kern
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks as Larry DayBebe Daniels as Vivien BentonEdward Everett Horton as Roger, the ValetClaud Allister as Sir Horace Partington ChelmsfordJack Mulhall as Jimmy CarringtonWalter Walker as James BentonJune MacCloy as Kitty - Aero Girl With Long EarringsHelen Jerome Eddy as Larry's SecretaryBing Crosby as BingWilliam H. O'Brien as Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)Dennis O'Keefe as Ship's Party Guest (uncredited)Lloyd Whitlock as Associate (uncredited)More like this
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