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"In her innocence she expected days and nights of tender love. What she got was a Bitter Shock!"
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
33 Cast Members
Sylvia Sidney
Joan Prentice
Fredric March
Jerry Corbett
Adrianne Allen
Claire Hempstead
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Buck
George Irving
Mr. Prentice
Esther Howard
Vi
Florence Britton
Charlcie
Charles Coleman
Richard Damery
Cary Grant
Charlie Baxter
Kent Taylor
Greg Boleslavsky
Robert Greig
Baritone Bartender (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Reporter (uncredited)
Mildred Boyd
June (uncredited)
Edna Callahan
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
Harry Cording
Fred (uncredited)
Milla Davenport
Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Neal Dodd
Minister (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Friend (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
Party Guest (uncredited)
