No Time for Comedy (1940)
A country boy takes over Broadway . . . until he gets into heart-trouble!
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
- Date of release
- 1940-09-14
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Director
- William Keighley
Casting
- James Stewart — Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook
- Rosalind Russell — Linda Paige Esterbrook
- Genevieve Tobin — Amanda 'Mandy' Swift
- Charles Ruggles — Philo Swift
- Allyn Joslyn — Morgan Carrell
- Clarence Kolb — Richard Benson
- Louise Beavers — Clementine
- J.M. Kerrigan — Jim
- Lawrence Grossmith — Frank
- Robert Greig — Robert
- Frank Faylen — Cab Driver
- Herbert Anderson — Actor in Show (uncredited)
Interesting facts
No Time for Comedy is a 1940 American comedy-drama film based on the play of the same name by S. N. Behrman, starring James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin and Charlie Ruggles.
Production
Julius Epstein later said "We had to make big changes" in adapting the play which "was just talk, talk, talk—no action really, no situations. It was very good talk, but we had to do a lot of changing on that."
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