Three Wise Girls

Three Wise Girls
Three Wise Girls
Directed by	William Beaudine
Written by	Agnes Christine Johnston (adaptation); Robert Riskin (dialogue)
Based on	Blonde Baby (1931 novel); by Wilson Collison
Starring	Jean Harlow; Mae Clarke; Walter Byron; Marie Prevost; Andy Devine
Cinematography	Ted Tetzlaff
Edited by	Jack Dennis
Production; company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	February 9, 1932;
Running time	66-68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Three Wise Girls is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by William Beaudine and featuring Jean Harlow in her first starring role. The supporting cast features a young Andy Devine. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

Plot

A young small-town woman heads to New York City, where she and her two friends have romantic troubles.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Jean Harlow as Cassie Barnes
Mae Clarke as Gladys Kane
Marie Prevost as Dot
Walter Byron as Jerry Dexter
Andy Devine as Jimmy Callahan
Natalie Moorhead as Ruth Dexter
Jameson Thomas as Arthur Phelps
Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Barnes
Kathrin Clare Ward as Mrs. Kane
Robert Dudley as Lem
Marcia Harris as Landlady
Walter Miller as Manager of Drugstore
Armand Kaliz as Andre

Reviews

Variety Tuesday, February 9, 1932

"While the title might suggest an effort to adapt 'The Greeks Had a Word for Them,' this is based on a far older foundation which has been used at least once or twice each season for the past several years. Still seems to possess an appeal and stands a chance of reaching further down the line than the more sophisticated yarns because it essays to point a moral."

Variety Tuesday, February 16, 1932

"Jean Harlow has often expressed a longing to play a 'good girl' In pictures, 'Three Wise Girls' (Beacon) grants her wish. In it she's just as good as good can be. But a good girl to picture audiences has to do more than act that way; she's got to look that way. However, it is a physical impossibility for Miss Harlow to assume the straight ascetic outlines which are the basis of virtue; to film audiences, her contours and manner of displaying them will never allow her to sneak into the good girl category no matter how sincerely she longs for it. Mae Clarke, who looks like a good girl and is cast for a bad one, and Marie Prevost, who doesn't aspire for a millionaire, but is happy with a chauffeur and a wedding band, complete the trio of girls laughingly called 'Wise' in this pleasant little yarn's title."

References

^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 by The American Film Institute, c.1993
^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, by The American Film Institute, c. 1978

External links

Three Wise Girls at IMDb
Three Wise Girls at the TCM Movie Database
Three Wise Girls at AllMovie
Three Wise Girls at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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[1] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 by The American Film Institute, c.1993

[2] Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, by The American Film Institute, c. 1978

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