True Confession (1937)
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her tongue in her cheek. Helen is married to a Kenneth Bartlett, a scrupulously honest lawyer whose integrity has always held him back professionally. Hoping to help Kenneth get ahead, Helen confesses to a murder she obviously didn't commit, confident that he'll get her off and make his reputation. But things don't go exactly as planned, thanks largely to a mysterious eccentric named Charley (John Barrymore), who assures the heroine over and over that she'll "fry." Once considered a prime example of screwball comedy, True Confession is now regarded by film buffs as one of Carole Lombard's worst pictures: it wasn't much better when remade by Betty Hutton in 1946 as Cross My Heart. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Carole Lombard - Helen Bartlett
- John Barrymore - Charley
- Porter Hall - Prosecutor
- Richard Carle - Judge
- Lynne Overman - Bartender
- Hattie McDaniel - Ella
- George B. French - Juror
- Martin Faust - Door Attendant
- Peggy Montgomery - Autograph hunter
- Wally Maher - Assistant Prosecutor
- Gwen Kenyon - Uncredited
- Wesley Giraud - Autograph Hunter
- Don Roberts - Court attendant
- Jane K. Loofbourrow
- Rosita Butler
- Harry Fleischmann - Policeman
- George Ovey - Juror
- Pat West - Juror
- Jim Toney - Juror
- Walter Soderling - Juror
- Anne Cornwall - Juror
- Irving Bacon - Coroner
- Herbert Ashley - Juror
- Seesel Ann Johnson - Autograph Hunter
- Fred MacMurray - Kenneth Bartlett
- Una Merkel - Daisy McClure
- Edgar Kennedy - Darsey
- John T. Murray - Otto Krayler
- Fritz Feld - Krayler's Butler
- Tom Dugan - Typewriter Man
- Nick Copeland - Guard
- Garry Owen - Tony Krauch
- Bradley Metcalfe, Jr.
- Arthur Lake - Attendant
- Elmer Jerome - Juror
- Byron Foulger - Ballistic expert
- Billy O'Brien
- Sharon Lewis - Yvonne Bolero
- C.L. Sherwood
- Dudley Clements
- Toby Wing - Suzanne Baggart
- Monte Vandergrift - Guard
- Bernard Suss - Pedestrian
- Gertrude Simpson - Juror
- Chester Clute - Juror
- Beaudine Anderson - Autograph Hunter
- Frank Austin - Caretaker
- Director(s):
- Wesley Ruggles
- Writer(s):
- Claude Binyon
- Producer(s):
- Albert Lewin
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