Love Before Breakfast

1936

Action / Comedy / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 943 943

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Plot summary

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.

Director

Walter Lang Photo
Walter Lang

Top cast

Joyce Compton Photo
Joyce Compton as Mary Lee
Forrester Harvey Photo
Forrester Harvey as Chief Steward
Edward Earle Photo
Edward Earle as Quartermaster
Betty Lawford Photo
Betty Lawford as Countess Campanella
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643.71 MB
1280*942
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 10 min
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1.17 GB
1456*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 10 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hotangen 5 / 10

Lombard is gorgeous, but...

I love Lombard as much as the next person. What's not to love? But this movie is shocking. I liked Kay Colby for 30 or so minutes, but then, as she became more angry, shrill, and mean, I came to thoroughly dislike the brat. Yet, even drenched, sneezing, and bundled in a too-big bathrobe,running wild and out of control, she's gorgeous, which is apparently why Foster is besotted with her. Her escalating infantile behavior should have been a wake-up call to her suitor that he'd best run for the hills, but instead he rustles up a minister and marries her, while she protests in the marriage vows that she will not obey. I see a quickie Reno divorce hot on the heels of the honeymoon.Preston Foster is much criticized for not being as charming as Cary Grant, or as attractively domineering as Clark Gable, but I thought his performance was fine. However, the character he played was not so fine. Back in the 30s women may have thought it was romantic to be so desired that a suitor would go to any lengths to win her, but today it looks like stalking. Still, I warmed up to him when he said he was breaking their engagement because he wanted her to be in love with him. This was an interesting plot turn but the scriptwriters fell down on the job by not developing this. Instead, they made Lombard's character unlikeable, and that's not a nice thing to do to any star, let alone Lombard.
Reviewed by bkaygordon 6 / 10

Toxic man syndrome

The acting in this film is fine. I like Lombard's films, but the plot line shows us why stalking, physical abuse and such was considered a norm and fine in a marriage back in their time and why that generation past it on to the next.Why on earth would a woman think marriage with a man who gave her a black eye was fine I'll never know and a mother who kept pushing her daughter to marry a man she doesn't like because he's rich- just plain a bad way of thinking.
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