Convention City

Convention City (1933)

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Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.

Date of release
1933-12-14
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Archie Mayo

Casting

Interesting facts

Convention City is a 1933 American pre-Code sex comedy film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Mary Astor and Adolphe Menjou. The film was produced by Henry Blanke and First National Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Production

During production, the film faced censorship problems from Motion Picture Association of America (MPPDA) due to its risque content and dialogue. Joan Blondell later said, "We were forever doing things among ourselves with double meanings. Finally, they would have people in the front office just watch for what we'd say off-color." Several lines were ordered to be removed by the MPPDA censors including:

No, but it won't be marriage. I'll guarantee you that. A traveling salesman needs a wife like a baby needs a box of matches.

Now you take off that dress and I'll take off my toupee, huh!

Girl's voice: 'Listen, sister, if they tire you, you better leave town before the Hercules Tool Company gets here.

In a studio memo, Jack L. Warner warned producer Hal Wallis that he may be going too far in the costuming:

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