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Why Be Good?

Year:

1930

Duration:

84 min

Genres:

Comedy | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.9

Director:

William A. Seiter

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1930-04-10

Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Colleen Moore

Neil Hamilton

Winthrop Peabody Jr.

Bodil Rosing

Ma Kelly

John St. Polis

Pa Kelly (as John Sainpolis)

Edward Martindel

Winthrop Peabody Sr.

Eddie Clayton

Tom

Lincoln Stedman

Jerry

Louis Natheaux

Jimmy Alexander

Collette Merton

Julie

Dixie Gay

Susie

Mischa Auer

Man Dancing at Boiler Club (uncredited)

Phyllis Crane

Salesgirl (uncredited)

Andy Devine

Young Man at the Boiler Club (uncredited)

Jean Harlow

Guest on Rooftop Bench at Peabody's Second Party (uncredited)

Phil Harris

Drummer in Jazz Band at Boiler Night Club (uncredited)

Earl McCarthy

Party Guest (uncredited)

Virginia Sale

Peabody's Secretary (uncredited)

Hector V. Sarno

Host of Stumble Inn (uncredited)

Grady Sutton

Guest at Peabody's First Party (uncredited)

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Trivia

Members of quartet singing "I'm Thirsty for Kisses, I'm Hungry for Love", "Doin' the Racoon" and "A Love Tale of Alsace Lorraine" on soundtrack are Eddie Willis, Carlton Boxeil, Stanley McClelland, and Fred Wilson.

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Deleted scenes included one in which Pert goes to visit her sister, and an extra scene at the end in which she calls up her father to tell him she just married Winthrop Peabody, Jr.

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First National Pictures production number 153.

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Goofs

When the Store Manager takes Pert Kelly's file from the file cabinet he takes it from the drawer beneath the one marked O-P, not from the drawer marked K, as would be expected.

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When Peabody, Sr. enters the Store Manager's office he calls him Ralph. But the name on the Manager's door is H.B. Lewis.

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