Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools (1938)

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.

Date of release
1938-06-15
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Busby Berkeley

Casting

Interesting facts

Men Are Such Fools is a 1938 American romantic comedy directed by Busby Berkeley and written by Norman Reilly Raine and Horace Jackson. The film stars Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, and Penny Singleton. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 16, 1938. Men Are Such Fools is adapted from the novel with the same name by Faith Baldwin.

Production

The film was produced by David Lewis who had just joined Warners from MGM. Lewis recalled:

There were several unusable scripts around, all trying to make a great deal out of a basically innocuous, though pleasant, piece of work. It was sort of a B-plus, a small budget picture, and I was assigned Norman Reilly Raine to write it... He stronglylacked a sense of dramatic construction... In time, Warren Duff, a staff writer who was a good organizer of material, came on the project and we finally gota script we could shoot.

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