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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1369

Love in the Rough

193084 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 84:04
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charles Reisner · Public domain

Synopsis

A shipping clerk with exceptional golfing skills teaches his employer at an exclusive club. Mistaken for a wealthy man, he falls in love and elopes, leaving the truth about his position to threaten the new marriage.

Cast

Robert Montgomery

Dorothy Jordan

Benny Rubin

J. C. Nugent

Penny Singleton

Tyrell Davis

DirectorsCharles Reisner

Inspirations

This early sound musical revisits the story of the silent feature Spring Fever. Golf provides both the romantic meeting place and a way to cross the story's social divisions.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Robert Montgomery — NBC Television; eBay front back · Public domain
Dorothy Jordan — unknown (MGM); eBay · Public domain
Benny Rubin — Unknown photographer Unknown photographer; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain
J. C. Nugent — trailer screenshot (Paramount Pictures); Give Me a Sailor trailer · Public domain
Penny Singleton — Studio Publicity; [1] · Public domain

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