Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

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7.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Richard Boleslawski

Starring (View all)

Irene Dunne
Theodora Lynn

Melvyn Douglas
Michael Grant

Thomas Mitchell
Jed Waterbury

Thurston Hall
Arthur Stevenson

Elisabeth Risdon
Aunt Mary

Margaret McWade
Aunt Elsie

Spring Byington
Rebecca Perry

Nana Bryant
Ethel Stevenson

Written by

Sidney Buchman
(screen play)

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Fifty Shades Of Screwball

9 years ago at Apr 5 20:31

Michael M

***This Review Contains Spoilers***Theodora Goes Wild was released two years into Hollywood’s production code and yet the entire premise of the movie is one huge “how did they get away with that?!”. Only The Lady Eve, Ball of Fire and The Moon Is Blue perhaps out do it in terms of most pre-code post-code films. A film with a heroine who writes risqué novels and rebels against her ultraconse... read more

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The author of a scandalously racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity from her provincial small town neighbors who'd be scandalized if they knew.

Release date: 12 November 1936

Tags: Comedy (2), Romance (2), Teachers (1), Romantic Comedy (1), Writers (1), Scandal (1), Author (1), 1936 (1), Small Towns (1), In Hiding (1)

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