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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy
Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Written byErwin S. Gelsey
Brown Holmes
Based onTinsel Girl
1931 play
by Maurine Dallas Watkins
Produced byHal B. Wallis
StarringAnn Dvorak
Lee Tracy
CinematographyRobert Kurrle
Edited byJames B. Morley
Music byBernhard Kaun
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • May 28, 1932 (1932-05-28) (United States)
Running time
73 mins.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

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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

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References

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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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