“MERRILY WE LIVE"
Constance Bennett and Brian A heme are co-starred for the first time in the new Hal Roach M.-G.-M. production., "Merrily We Live." Billie Burke, who] scored so successfully as the Victorian wife in "Topper." has the role of Mrs Kilbourne, a philanthropist, whose spe-' cialty is the reformation of hoboes who call at her door. Alan Mowbray, also of "Topper” fame, again is cast as a butler. Patsy Kelly, one of the screen's foremost comediennes, romps through j the role of a cook in the Kilbourne es- I tablihsment Her life is made hectic j through the enthusiasms of Mrs Kil- 1 bourne for her newly-discovered tramps, and through the butler's disgust at! these humanitarian endeavours. In the , role of a Senator’s daughter whose pre- j datory eye settles upon Miss Bennett's j romantic interest in the film is Ann Dvorak. Bonita Granville plays the j "kid sister" in the Kilbourne family, and Tom Brown is the "kid brother." *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 10 December 1938, Page 6
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