Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim

95 mins | Comedy, Romance | Aug. 14, 1936

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

Piccadilly Jim

95 mins | Comedy, Romance | Aug. 14, 1936

Piccadilly Jim
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Piccadilly Jim
Directors Robert Z. Leonard
Writers P.G. Wodehouse, Edwin H. Knopf, Charles Brackett

Cast

Robert Montgomery

as James Crocker, Jr.

Frank Morgan

as James Crocker, Sr. / Count Olav Osric

Madge Evans

as Ann Chester

Eric Blore

as Bayliss, Jim's Butler

Billie Burke

as Eugenia Willis, Nesta's Sister

Robert Benchley

as Bill Macon

Ralph Forbes

as Lord Frederick 'Freddie' Priory

Cora Witherspoon

as Nesta Pett, Ann's Aunt

Tommy Bupp

as Ogden Pett

Aileen Pringle

as Paducah Pomeroy

Grant Mitchell

as Herbert Pett

E. E. Clive

as London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan

Billy Bevan

as Taxi Driver

Grayce Hampton

as Mrs. Brede (as Grace Hampton)

Bess Flowers

as Nightclub patron

Torben Meyer

as Pett's Butler (uncredited)

Dennis Morgan

as Chrystal Club Singer (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe

as Petie McGregor (uncredited)