Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Accent on Youth (1935)

Accent on Youth poster
Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An aging playwright falls for his young secretary, which leads to humorous romantic complications. The story follows their attempts to navigate love and ambition in a theatrical setting.

lightheartedplayfulbreezycharmingupbeatwhimsicalcomedic

What happens

Accent on Youth is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Herbert Fields and Claude Binyon based on the 1934 play of the same name written by Samson Raphaelson. The film stars Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall and features Phillip Reed, Holmes Herbert, Catherine Doucet, Astrid Allwyn and Lon Chaney Jr. The film was released on August 23, 1935, by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?