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The Gilded Lily (1935) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Wesley Ruggles and produced by Albert Lewis.

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The Case Of The Gilded Lily (2017)

By Michael on Mar 19, 2018 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

There’s a great variety of quality when it comes to film parodies.There are the all-time greats, such as Airplane! which delivers so many laughs it almost requires rewatching just to catch them all. Then there are the ones like Epic Movie which would be hard pressed to garner much more than an... Read full article


The Gilded Lily(1935)

By Dawn on Dec 7, 2010 From Noir and Chick Flicks

The Gilded Lily(1935). Directed by Welsey Ruggles. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Aubrey Smith. Lynn, and her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, meet every Thursday night on a bench, where they share a bag of popcorn and talk about their life.. Lynn, soon, meets vacationi... Read full article


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Marilyn David: Pete, you're a smart fellow. What do poor little working girls usually do next?
Peter Dawes: Well, they usually drown themselves, one way or the other.
Marilyn David: I'll take the other.


Peter Dawes: But popcorn - ah, popcorn was made for watching the world go by. Look. I stick my hand in the bag without taking my eyes off the street. I throw some popcorn in my craw. I chew... and I'm still looking. That's what I call class.
Marilyn David: Sure. Peanut eaters don't know how to live.


Marilyn David: I want a glass. About this big. Mmm, no, maybe about THIS big. And I don't care what you put in it - whiskey, hair tonic, rat poison - but whatever it is, when I finish drinking it, I want to be curled up in a little heap, right HERE.


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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 11, 1937 with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray reprising their film roles.
First of seven movies that paired Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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