Plot
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Cast
as Oscar Jaffe
as Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka
as Oliver Webb
as Owen O'Malley
as George Smith
as Max Jacobs
as Matthew J. Clark
as Sadie
as Oscar McGonigle
as Anita
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Reviews
You'd best hold on tight and don't let go because you're in for quite the ride on board the Twentieth Century. It's screwball comedy taken to the absolute max, and it barely lets up for a minute. It's one ridiculously memorable (or memorably ridiculous) scene after another, with just a couple highlights being Carole Lombard getting stabbed in the behind with a pincushion, and John Barrymore fak…
I'm not quite sure what the title had to do with anything, but this is still an enjoyable opportunity for John Barrymore and Carole Lombard to have some theatrical games of cat and mouse with a bit of help from the long suffering Walter Connolly's "Oliver" and the permanently sozzled "Owen" (Roscoe Karns). Barrymore is the acclaimed impresario "Jaffe" who discovers the improbably named "Mlldred P…