Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
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Robert Montgomery as James Crocker, Jr. |
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Frank Morgan as James Crocker, Sr. / Count Olav Osric |
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Madge Evans as Ann Chester |
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Eric Blore as Bayliss, Jim's Butler |
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Billie Burke as Eugenia Willis, Nesta's Sister |
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Robert Benchley as Bill Macon |
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Ralph Forbes as Lord Frederick 'Freddie' Priory |
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Cora Witherspoon as Nesta Pett, Ann's Aunt |
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Tommy Bupp as Ogden Pett |
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Aileen Pringle as Paducah Pomeroy |
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Grant Mitchell as Herbert Pett |
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E. E. Clive as London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan |
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Billy Bevan as Taxi Driver |
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Grayce Hampton as Mrs. Brede (as Grace Hampton) |
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Bess Flowers as Nightclub patron |
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Torben Meyer as Pett's Butler (uncredited) |
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Dennis Morgan as Chrystal Club Singer (uncredited) |
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Dennis O'Keefe as Petie McGregor (uncredited) |
| Directing | Robert Z. Leonard | Director |
| Writing | P.G. Wodehouse | Novel |
| Writing | Charles Brackett | Writer |
| Writing | Edwin H. Knopf | Writer |
| Camera | Joseph Ruttenberg | Director of Photography |
| Editing | William S. Gray | Editor |
