They Wanted to Marry (1937)
The "they" who want to marry in this RKO Radio programmer are news photographer Jim Tyler (Gordon Jones) and cute society deb Sheila Hunter (Betty Furness). The heroine's father (Henry Kolker) disapproves of the union, requiring Gordon to take a "respectable" job in daddy's advertising agency. Our hero manages to strike out on Madison Avenue, but redeems himself with a big news scoop in the final reel. E.E. Clive has all the good lines as the Hunter family's dry-witted butler. Four decades later, leading lady Betty Furness would later make a name for herself in the journalistic world as NBC's consumer reporter. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Betty Furness, Gordon Jones, (more)
- Director(s):
- Lew Landers
Synopsis of They Wanted to Marry
The "they" who want to marry in this RKO Radio programmer are news photographer Jim Tyler (Gordon Jones) and cute society deb Sheila Hunter (Betty Furness). The heroine's father (Henry Kolker) disapproves of the union, requiring Gordon to take a "respectable" job in daddy's advertising agency. Our hero manages to strike out on Madison Avenue, but redeems himself with a big news scoop in the final reel. E.E. Clive has all the good lines as the Hunter family's dry-witted butler. Four decades later, leading lady Betty Furness would later make a name for herself in the journalistic world as NBC's consumer reporter. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of They Wanted to Marry
- Betty Furness - Sheila Hunter
- E.E. Clive - Stiles
- Henry Kolker - Mr. Hunter
- Charles Wilson - Clark
- Diana Gibson - Helen Hunter
- Franklin Pangborn
- Gordon Jones - Jim Tyler
- Patsy Lee Parsons - Patsy Hunter
- Frank M. Thomas - Detective
- William Benedict - Freckles
- Spencer Charters
- Director(s):
- Lew Landers
- Writer(s):
- Paul Yawitz, Ethel B. Borden
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