Borrowed Wives
(1930)
62 mins | Comedy-drama | 20 August 1930
Cast:
Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds, Paul Hurst [ More ]Director:
Frank R. StrayerWriter:
W. Scott DarlingCinematographer:
André BarlatierEditor:
Byron RobinsonProduction Company:
Tiffany Productions, Inc.Why Marry? was the original working title for this film. Referring to it by that name, the 24 May 1930 Hollywood Filmograph announced that the screenplay had recently been completed by Scott Darling, and Tiffany Productions, Inc.’s chief studio exec, Phil Goldstone, was currently casting the film. Glenn Hunter was hired to play the lead role of “Peter Foley”; however, although Borrowed Wives would have marked his talking picture debut, Hunter was forced to leave due to illness, as reported in the 9 Jun 1930 Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today. He was replaced by Rex Lease, and filming was completed at Tiffany’s studio in Hollywood, CA, by 21 Jun 1930, according to that day’s Hollywood Filmograph. The same day’s issue of Inside Facts of Stage and Screen announced a title change from Why Marry? to Scrambled Wives. The title was changed again to Borrowed Wives prior to the film’s 20 Aug 1930 release.
In the 1931 Film Daily Year Book, dialogue director Leander de Cordova was also credited as a dialoguer. ...
Why Marry? was the original working title for this film. Referring to it by that name, the 24 May 1930 Hollywood Filmograph announced that the screenplay had recently been completed by Scott Darling, and Tiffany Productions, Inc.’s chief studio exec, Phil Goldstone, was currently casting the film. Glenn Hunter was hired to play the lead role of “Peter Foley”; however, although Borrowed Wives would have marked his talking picture debut, Hunter was forced to leave due to illness, as reported in the 9 Jun 1930 Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today. He was replaced by Rex Lease, and filming was completed at Tiffany’s studio in Hollywood, CA, by 21 Jun 1930, according to that day’s Hollywood Filmograph. The same day’s issue of Inside Facts of Stage and Screen announced a title change from Why Marry? to Scrambled Wives. The title was changed again to Borrowed Wives prior to the film’s 20 Aug 1930 release.
In the 1931 Film Daily Year Book, dialogue director Leander de Cordova was also credited as a dialoguer.
Why Marry?
Peter Foley's grandfather wills him $1 million provided that he gets married. Peter plans to marry Alice Blake as soon as she arrives from Kansas City and to take her to his Uncle Henry's home before midnight. Her airplane is delayed, and Parker, to whom Peter is in debt, insists that his own girl friend, Julia, pose as Peter's wife. Alice is informed by Joe Blair that Peter is actually married to Julia; she agrees to marry Joe if this is true; and they are pursued by Bull, a motorcycle policeman who loves Julia. Complications follow at Uncle Henry's: Lawyer Winstead, who is found bound and gagged, agrees to marry them; the uncle, revealed to be posing as a paralytic, is exposed as a villain; and Peter and Alice are married before the hour appointed in the ...
Peter Foley's grandfather wills him $1 million provided that he gets married. Peter plans to marry Alice Blake as soon as she arrives from Kansas City and to take her to his Uncle Henry's home before midnight. Her airplane is delayed, and Parker, to whom Peter is in debt, insists that his own girl friend, Julia, pose as Peter's wife. Alice is informed by Joe Blair that Peter is actually married to Julia; she agrees to marry Joe if this is true; and they are pursued by Bull, a motorcycle policeman who loves Julia. Complications follow at Uncle Henry's: Lawyer Winstead, who is found bound and gagged, agrees to marry them; the uncle, revealed to be posing as a paralytic, is exposed as a villain; and Peter and Alice are married before the hour appointed in the will.
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