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1932 film
The Kid From Spain
Theatrical poster
Directed by
Leo McCarey Written by Produced by
Samuel Goldwyn Starring
Eddie Cantor Cinematography
Gregg Toland Edited by
Stuart Heisler Music by Harry Ruby with lyrics by Bert Kalmar Production company
Distributed by
United Artists Release dates
November 17, 1932 (1932-11-17 ) (New York City
[1] )
November 22, 1932 (1932-11-22 ) (Los Angeles
[2] )
Running time
96 minutes Country United States Language English Box office $2,621,000
[3]
[4]
1932 advert from
The Film Daily
The Kid from Spain is a 1932 American
pre-Code black-and-white
musical comedy film directed by
Leo McCarey .
Harry Ruby and
Bert Kalmar composed the songs, and
Busby Berkeley is credited with creating and directing the film's musical scenes.
[5] It was
Jane Wyman 's film debut.
Plot
Eddie and Ricardo, expelled from their college (in the United States), travel to Ricardo's home country, Mexico, where they find dangerous gangsters but also love.
Cast
Also appearing in uncredited roles are
Harry C. Bradley ,
Teresa Maxwell-Conover ,
Eduardo de Castro ,
Harry Gribbon ,
Paul Panzer ,
Julian Rivero ,
Walter Walker ,
Leo Willis ,
Tammany Young , and the stock company of the
Goldwyn Girls , consisting at that time of
Betty Grable , Beatrice Hagen,
Paulette Goddard ,
Toby Wing ,
Jane Wyman ,
Althea Henley ,
Dorothy Coonan Wellman ,
Shirley Chambers , and Lynn Browning.
References
^ Holston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973 . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 74–75.
ISBN
978-0-7864-6062-5 .
^
"Sam Goldwyn East" .
Variety . November 8, 1932. p. 3. Retrieved December 11, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^
"Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?" .
The Argus . Melbourne. March 4, 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
^
Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers" , International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 (1938), p. 942; accessed April 19, 2014.
^
"The Kid from Spain" . imdb.com. Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
External links
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42nd Street (musical numbers, 1933)
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