No More Orchids

1932Movie⏱️ 1h 18mPassed

DramaRomance

⭐ 6.6

IMDB Rating

586 votes

An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise.

Director

Walter Lang

Writers

Grace Perkins, Gertrude Purcell, Keene Thompson

Stars

Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale

Release Date

November 25, 1932

Language

English

Country

United States

💬 17

Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Carole Lombard

as Anne Holt

Walter Connolly

as Bill Holt

Louise Closser Hale

as Grandma Holt

Lyle Talbot

as Tony Gage

C. Aubrey Smith

as Jerome Cedric

Allen Vincent

as Dick

Ruthelma Stevens

as Rita

Arthur Housman

as Serge

William V. Mong

as Burkhardt

Jameson Thomas

as Prince Carlos

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Wall Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Production

Columbia Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

spoiled childloveinsurance policyfinancial ruinbanker

🎯 Categories

DramaRomance

⭐ Featured Review

Reality hits her hard and soon

by bkoganbing • 2019-06-20

5/10

"Carole Lombard was loaned from Paramount to Columbia to star in No More Orchids in which she plays a spoiled heiress, not unlike the one she played in her later classic My Man Godfrey. She lives pretty high on the hog, but the pig is about to be slain as this is the Great Depression and the bank that her father Walter Connolly heads is about to go belly up. Her grandfather C. Aubrey Smith does not like his son-in-law. But he does like his granddaughter and he wants Lombard to marry some empty suit with a title. He fancies being in-laws to nobility. He's got the empty suit picked out. bu..."

💡 Did You Know?

Walter Connolly (Bill Holt) and Jameson Thomas (Prince Carlos) would again play a father and his prospective son-in-law in It Happened One Night (1934).