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Convention City(1933)
Status: Released
Date: 1933-12-14
30%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 9m
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Overview:
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $239,000.00
Revenue: $522,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Convention City
Top 10 Billed Cast
Joan Blondell
Nancy Lorraine
Adolphe Menjou
T.R. (Ted) Kent
Dick Powell
Jerry Ford
Mary Astor
Arlene Dale
Guy Kibbee
George Ellerbe
Frank McHugh
Will Goodwin
Hugh Herbert
Hotstetter
Grant Mitchell
J.B. Honeywell
Ruth Donnelly
Mrs. Ellerbe
Patricia Ellis
Claire Honeywell
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