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Up Pops the Devil is a american film of genre Comedy directed by A. Edward Sutherland released in USA on 19 may 1931 with Norman Foster

Up Pops the Devil (1931)

Up Pops the Devil
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Released in USA 19 may 1931
Length 1h25
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating56% 2.818712.818712.818712.818712.81871

Up Pops the Devil (1931) is an American Pre-Code film about an advertising man (Norman Foster) who quits his job to become a novelist, upsetting his wife (Carole Lombard) and straining their marriage. The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay is based on a 3-act play of the same name written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; the play ran on Broadway for 148 performances from September 1930 to January 1931 at the Theatre Masque.

Actors

Norman Foster

(Steve Merrick)Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

(Barney Hatfield)Carole Lombard

(Anne Merrick)Stuart Erwin

(Stranger)Lilyan Tashman

(Polly Griscom)
And :
Edward J. Nugent
Theodore von Eltz
Joyce Compton
Harry Beresford
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