Fast and Loose

Fast and Loose (1930)

This favorite of fortune who can buy everything she wants — except love! See her run smack into a devastating romance that proves love's no laughting matter.

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Date of release
1930-11-08
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Fred C. Newmeyer

Casting

Interesting facts

Fast and Loose is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Doris Anderson, Jack Kirkland and Preston Sturges, based on the 1924 play The Best People by David Gray and Avery Hopwood. Fast and Loose was released by Paramount Pictures.

Production

David Gray and Avery Hopwood's play, The Best People, opened on Broadway on August 19, 1924, and ran for 142 performances. It was later revived in 1933 when it ran for a more modest 67 performances. Hopwood was a prolific and successful playwright, many of whose plays were adapted into films – his 1919 play The Gold Diggers provided the template for the Warner Bros. series of movie musicals.

The Best People was made into a silent film in 1925, The Best People, before Paramount had it refashioned into a vehicle for Miriam Hopkins, an established Broadway star who had just signed with the studio after making the short subject The Home Girl for them in 1928. Fast and Loose was her second film appearance.

Fast and Loose was also Preston Sturges' second Hollywood assignment, after The Big Pond (and its French-language version La grande mare). Carole Lombard, on the other hand, had appeared in over 40 films by the time Fast and Loose was released, all as "Carol Lombard."

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