Week Ends Only (1932)

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Country: USA
Genres: Romance
Release: 1932-06-19
Director: Alan Crosland
Writers: Samuel Hopkins Adams , William M. Conselman
Language: English
Stars: Joan Bennett , Ben Lyon , John Halliday , Halliwell Hobbes (1877–1962) , Walter Byron , Henry Armetta , John Arledge , John Elliott , Berton Churchill , Edmund Burns
Runtime: 70 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Week Ends Only (United Kingdom) , Week Ends Only (United States of America) , Week Ends Only , Entre dos fuegos (Spain) , Ena paraxeno koritsi (Greece) , Entre Dois Fogos (Brazil)
Plot: Joan Bennett is a rich girl whose family loses everything in the stock market crash, nicely and succinctly animated. She runs into her butler, who is doing well operating a night club, and gets a job playing hostess there. Her role is purely above-board, though it is an unusual position and seems seedy to those unfamiliar with her. Bennett scrimps and saves, looking luxe and glamorous on the weekends and eating simple meals in her tiny garret during the week. Her neighbor is Ben Lyon, another former rich kid who is trying to eke out a living as an artist. Bennett poses for him and they fall in love, ("I like you very good.") but inevitably he finds out how she makes her living, and he doesn't like it.Bennett is dazzlingly gorgeous in this film, and she wears several revealing costumes including a pantsuit topped by a handkerchief that leaves little to the imagination. The dialogue is witty. When a persistent rich man asks Bennett, "Why don't you move in?" she responds, "When are you moving out?" The before and after paintings reminded me of the shocking reveal in The Portrait of Dorian Grey. This is an entertaining film with a believable love story and characters your root for.
IMDB:tt0023678