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High Society Blues (1930)

High Society Blues poster
Directed by
David Butler
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy young man and a woman from a different social class fall in love. They must navigate the expectations of their families and high society.

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What happens

High Society Blues is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was written by Howard J. Green from the story by Dana Burnett, and directed by David Butler. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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