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Laugh and Get Rich is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Gregory La Cava released in USA on 20 april 1931 with Edna May Oliver

Laugh and Get Rich (1931)

Laugh and Get Rich
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Released in USA 20 april 1931
Length 1h12
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating55% 2.761262.761262.761262.761262.76126

Laugh and Get Rich is a 1931 Pre-Code American comedy film, directed by Gregory La Cava, from a screenplay he also wrote with contributions from Douglas MacLean (who also was the associate producer) and Ralph Spence. The film starred Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, and Russell Gleason, and revolved around the antics in a boarding house in the early 1930s, run by Oliver, and the complications caused by her husband.

Synopsis

Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver) runs a boarding house during the Depression, always on the verge of bankruptcy. Her husband, Joe (Hugh Herbert) is a shiftless person who has never understood the concept of work; he is constantly involving them in get-rich-quick schemes. Their daughter, Alice (Dorothy Lee), has her eyes set on poor young inventor, Larry Owens (Russell Gleason), but her mother wishes she would become involved with Bill Hepburn (John Harron), seemingly from a well-connected family.

Actors

Edna May Oliver

(Sarah Cranston Austin)Hugh Herbert

(Joe Austin)Dorothy Lee

(Alice Austin)Russell Gleason

(Larry Owens)John Harron

(Bill Hepburn)
And :
Charles Sellon
George Davis
Robert Emmett Keane
Maude Fealy
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