A Tailor-Made Man

A Tailor-Made Man

81 mins | Comedy | March 28, 1931

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.

A Tailor-Made Man

81 mins | Comedy | March 28, 1931

A Tailor-Made Man
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title A Tailor-Made Man
Directors Sam Wood
Writers Harry James Smith, Edgar Allan Woolf

Cast

William Haines

as John Paul Bart

Dorothy Jordan

as Tanya

Joseph Cawthorn

as Huber

Marjorie Rambeau

as Kitty DuPuy

William Austin

as Jellicott

Ian Keith

as Dr. Gustav von Sonntag

Hedda Hopper

as Mrs. Stanslaw / Mrs. Stanlaw

Hale Hamilton

as Mr. Stanlaw

Henry Armetta

as Peter, Tailor

Walter Walker

as Abraham Nathan

Forrester Harvey

as Pomeroy

Joan Marsh

as Beanie

Martha Sleeper

as Corrine

Ann Dvorak

as Bit (uncredited)

Hilda Vaughn

as (uncredited)

Suzanne Wood

as (uncredited)