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Love on Toast

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Love on Toast
Film poster
Directed byEwald André Dupont
Screenplay byRichard Connell
Doris Malloy
Jane Storm
Produced byEmanuel Cohen
StarringStella Adler
John Payne
Grant Richards
Kathryn Kane
CinematographyCharles Edgar Schoenbaum
Edited byRay Curtiss
Music byGeorge Stoll
Production
company
Emanuel Cohen Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 3, 1937 (1937-12-03)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Love on Toast is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ewald André Dupont. It was John Payne's fourth film and acting teacher Stella Adler’s first of only three.

Plot

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Linda Craven (Stella Adler), the press agent for a soup company, is tasked with hiring a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign. A singing soda jerk named Bill Adams (John Payne) is selected as Mr. Manhattan, after which he helps to select Polly Marr (Kathryn "Sugar" Kane) as Miss Brooklyn. Marr proves to be brash and troublesome, but along the way Adams falls in love with Craven.[1]

Cast

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Critical reception

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A contemporary review in Variety described the film as a "slapsticky comedy" that "might have been far more impressive if farcical scenes had been built up instead of falling for the temptation to toss pastry and inject roughhouse methods," and noted that Adler "looks well despite faulty makeup but fits into the cinema acting scene whenever given opportunity [and who] shines despite the grotesque hokum," and "lavish sets and costly costuming is background for [this] mawkish fable [...] direction of E.A. Dupont is neither even nor effective."[2]

References

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  1. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Love On Toast (1937)". AllMovie. Netakion, LLC. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  2. ^ "Love On Toast". Variety. Variety. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
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