Lover Come Back (1931 film)

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Lover Come Back
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Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Screenplay by Dorothy Howell
Story by Helen Topping Miller
Robert T. Shannon
Starring Constance Cummings
Jack Mulhall
Betty Bronson
Jameson Thomas
Cinematography Gene Havlick
Edited byJoseph Walker
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 16, 1931 (1931-06-16)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lover Come Back is a 1931 Columbia Pictures pre-Code drama directed by Erle C. Kenton from a script by Dorothy Howell. The story was based on a McCall's magazine feature by Helen Topping Miller. [1]

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Plot

After the man she hoped to marry is lured away by a sultry vamp, a dejected stenographer gives in to her boss's advances and moves into his New York City apartment. Of course, soon the sultry vamp is after her boss. Complications abound. [2]

Cast

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References

  1. "2 New Stars in Lover Come Back". The Sioux City Journal. June 7, 1931. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  2. "Men in her Life (1931); Lover Come Back (1931) | UCLA Film & Television Archive". www.cinema.ucla.edu. Retrieved January 21, 2019.