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The Gilded Lily (1935)

The Gilded Lily poster
Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stenographer becomes a café entertainer and is courted by an English aristocrat and an American newspaper reporter.

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What happens

The Gilded Lily (also known as One Night Like This) is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, and C. Aubrey Smith. The production's screenplay, written by Claude Binyon, is about a stenographer who becomes a famous café entertainer courted by an English aristocrat and an American newspaper reporter. Released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on January 25, 1935, the film is one of the English language films chosen by the National Board of Review for its top-10 list of 1935. The Gilded Lily is also the first of seven films in which Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray costar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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