Ladies of Leisure
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Ladies of Leisure is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, and Lowell Sherman. The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the
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Lowell Sherman
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Lowell Sherman was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to di
Ladies of Leisure
…Ladies of Leisure is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, and Lowell Sherman. The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the 1924 play Ladies of the Evening by Milton Herbert Gropper, which ran for 159 performances on Broadway…
Sherman in 1928
Sherman and Katharine Cornell in the Broadway production of Casanova (1923)
Sherman (left), Neil Hamilton and Constance Bennett in What Price Hollywood? (1932)
False Faces ad from The Film Daily, 1932