The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
	Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Erwin S. Gelsey; Brown Holmes
Based on	Tinsel Girl; 1931 play; by Maurine Dallas Watkins
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Ann Dvorak; Lee Tracy
Cinematography	Robert Kurrle
Edited by	James B. Morley
Music by	Bernhard Kaun
Production; company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 28, 1932 (United States);
Running time	73 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy.^[1] The script was based on the play Tinsel Girl by Maurine Dallas Watkins, and was screened by the UCLA Film & Television Archive^[2]

Plot

Molly Louvain is a young woman who has a baby out of wedlock. She falls in with a career criminal and, after he is shot by police, she hides out with a former bellhop who wants to marry her and make her "respectable." But, instead, she falls in love with Scotty Cornell, a fast-talking cynical newspaper reporter, who does not realize that she is, in fact, the very gun moll that he has been writing about in his columns. As she is about to go to prison, he discovers her identity, but pledges to stick by her nevertheless.

Cast

Ann Dvorak as Madeleine Maude 'Molly' Louvain
Lee Tracy as Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Cook
Guy Kibbee as Pop, a Policeman
Leslie Fenton as Nicky Grant
Frank McHugh as Skeets, a Reporter
Evalyn Knapp as Doris
Charles B. Middleton as Police Captain Slade
Mary Doran as Dance Hall Girl
Thomas E. Jackson as Police Sergeant
C. Henry Gordon as Detective Martin
George Chandler as Reporter
Louise Beavers as Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
Wade Boteler as Detective (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson as Detective Charlie (uncredited)
Hank Mann as Harley, a Reporter (uncredited)
Snub Pollard as B. J. Pratt, Bill Collector (uncredited)
Jacquie Lyn as Ann Marie (uncredited)

References

^ The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932), American Film Institute Catalogue, retrieved May 4, 2024
^ Female / The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, UCLA Library - Film & Television Archive, January 6, 2018, retrieved May 4, 2024

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[1] The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932), American Film Institute Catalogue, retrieved May 4, 2024

[2] Female / The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, UCLA Library - Film & Television Archive, January 6, 2018, retrieved May 4, 2024

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