Gentlemen Are Born

Gentlemen Are Born

75 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | Nov. 17, 1934

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

Gentlemen Are Born

75 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | Nov. 17, 1934

Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures
Original title Gentlemen Are Born
Directors Alfred E. Green
Writers Robert Lee Johnson, Eugene Solow

Cast

Franchot Tone

as Bob Bailey

Jean Muir

as Trudy Talbot

Margaret Lindsay

as Joan Harper

Ann Dvorak

as Susan Merrill

Ross Alexander

as Tom Martin

Dick Foran

as Smudge Casey

Charles Starrett

as Stephen Hornblow

Russell Hicks

as Newspaper Editor

Robert Light

as Fred Harper

Addison Richards

as Martinson

Henry O'Neill

as Mr. Harper

Arthur Aylesworth

as Mr. Gillespie

Marjorie Gateson

as Mrs. Harper

Bradley Page

as Al Ludlow

Brandon Beach

as Third Broker

Carlyle Blackwell Jr.

as Young Man

Nina Campana

as Italian Wife

Eddy Chandler

as Police Officer

Joseph Crehan

as Haskins

Jane Darwell

as Landlady

Frank Dawson

as Reception Room Man

John Elliott

as Bill - Night Editor

Florence Fair

as Trudy's Nurse

Eddie Fetherston

as Stockbroker at Window

Maude Turner Gordon

as Society Matron

Jonathan Hale

as Second Broker

Herbert Heywood

as Elderly Man

Howard Hickman

as College President

Virginia Howell

as Miss Graham

George Humbert

as Italian

Edward Keane

as First Broker

Alice Marr

as Nurse

Edward McWade

as Pawnbroker

Bert Moorhouse

as Intern

Edward Mosbar

as Tom Texas

Joseph North

as Butler

Paul Panzer

as Counter Man

Cliff Saum

as Announcer

Harry Seymour

as Fence

Eddie Shubert

as Detective

Eddie Sturgis

as Janitor

Victoria Vinton

as Minor Role

Delmar Watson

as Crying Boy

Leo White

as Waiter