Hard to Handle (film)
1933 film
- January 28, 1933 (1933-01-28)
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Hard to Handle (1933) is a pre-Code comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression-era dance marathon. His character remarks at one point, "The mass is a cow. It must be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
Plot
Cast
- James Cagney as Myron C. 'Lefty' Merrill
- Mary Brian as Ruth Waters
- Allen Jenkins as Marathon radio announcer
- Ruth Donnelly as Lil Waters
- Claire Dodd as Marlene Reeves
- Robert McWade as Charles G. Reeves
- Berton Churchill as Col. H.D.X. Wells
- Emma Dunn as Mrs. Hawks
- Gavin Gordon as John Hayden
- Sterling Holloway as Andy Heaney
- William H. Strauss as Mr. Abe Goldstein
- Bess Flowers as Merrill's Secretary
External links
- Hard to Handle at the TCM Movie Database
- Hard to Handle at IMDb
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Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy
- No Place to Go (1927)
- Flying Romeos (1928)
- Harold Teen (1928)
- Oh, Kay! (1928)
- Naughty Baby (1928)
- Hot Stuff (1929)
- Broadway Babies (1929)
- Little Johnny Jones (1929)
- Playing Around (1930)
- Showgirl in Hollywood (1930)
- Numbered Men (1930)
- Top Speed (1930)
- Little Caesar (1931)
- Gentleman's Fate (1931)
- Too Young to Marry (1931)
- Broadminded (1931)
- Five Star Final (1931)
- Local Boy Makes Good (1931)
- Tonight or Never (1931)
- Big City Blues (1932)
- Two Seconds (1932)
- Three on a Match (1932)
- The Heart of New York (1932)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- High Pressure (1932)
- Elmer, the Great (1933)
- Hard to Handle (1933)
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- The World Changes (1933)
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- The Wizard of Oz (1939, uncredited)
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- Escape (1940)
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- Unholy Partners (1941)
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- Random Harvest (1942)
- Madame Curie (1943)
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- The House I Live In (1945)
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- Little Women (1949)
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- Lovely to Look At (1952)
- Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
- Latin Lovers (1953)
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- Mister Roberts (1955)
- Strange Lady in Town (1955)
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- Toward the Unknown (1956)
- No Time for Sergeants (1958)
- Home Before Dark (1958)
- The FBI Story (1959)
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