Hardboiled Rose (1929)
Melodramatic romance of Dixieland!
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
- Date of release
- 1929-03-30
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Director
- F. Harmon Weight
Casting
- Myrna Loy — Rose Duhamel
- John Miljan — Steve Wallace
- Gladys Brockwell — Julie Malo
- Lucy Beaumont — Grandmama Duhamel
- Ralph Emerson — John Trask
- Edward Martindel — Jefferson Duhamel
- Otto Hoffman — Apyton Hale
- Floyd Shackelford — Butler
- William Collier Jr. — Edward Malo
Interesting facts
Hardboiled Rose is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film starred Myrna Loy, William Collier, Jr., and John Miljan.
Production
This was Loy's second starring role in a movie, after Turn Back the Hours (1928). Hardboiled Rose would become Myrna Loy's last part-talkie. After this movie Myrna Loy would make all-talking movies, with some filmed in Technicolor.
In 1933, Loy's Warners contract ended and she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1934, Myrna Loy made two movies with MGM that would make her a big star for the next 20 years, Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man.
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