Love Before Breakfast

Love Before Breakfast (1936)

It was love at first FIGHT!... So they married in HATE and lived SCRAPPILY ever after!

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.

Date of release
1936-03-09
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Walter Lang

Casting

Interesting facts

Love Before Breakfast is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, and Janet Beecher. The screenplay by Herbert Fields, assisted by numerous contract writers including Preston Sturges, is based on Faith Baldwin's short story "Spinster Dinner", published in International-Cosmopolitan in July 1934.

Production

Love Before Breakfast had the working title of Spinster Dinner, the title of the Faith Baldwin short story it was based on. Several months before filming began, it was reported that Melvyn Douglas would take the male lead.

Carole Lombard was under contract to Paramount, who lent her to Universal for this film, in exchange for Margaret Sullavan going there to do So Red The Rose. Lombard also brought technical staff from Paramount, including photographer Ted Tetzlaff and costume designer Travis Banton.

Lombard, who had the contractual right to reject scripts, did not like the ones she was presented for Love Before Breakfast, including those written by Preston Sturges, Claude Binyon, Samuel Hoffenstein, Harry Clork, Doris Malloy, and William Conselman. Eventually, she accepted Herbert Fields's script.

Love Before Breakfast was in production from December 16, 1935, to January 27, 1936, and was released on March 9, 1936.

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