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The Cardboard Lover (1928)

The Cardboard Lover

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1h 17m

Comedy, Romance

August 25th, 1928

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A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. What he doesn't realize is that the girl isn't pretending --she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.

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Cast

Marion Davies
Sally
Jetta Goudal
Simone
Nils Asther
Andre
Andrés de Segurola
The Baritone
Tenen Holtz
Argine
Pepi Lederer
Flapper
Carrie Daumery
Chaperon
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Directors

Robert Z. Leonard
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Producers

Marion Davies
producer
William Randolph Hearst
executive producer
(uncredited)
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Writers

Jacques Deval
play
Lucille Newmark
titles
Carey Wilson
adaptation
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Taglines

Broadway Shook With Laughter For Months at the Play! The Film is even funnier. And beautiful Marion Davies is just grand as the girl who gambles with love at Monte Carlo- where men are men, and women are after them. (Print Ad-Meriden Daily Journal, ((Meriden, Conn.)) 22 August 1928)
Marion is here again as delightful as ever. She gambles at Monte Carlo thinking she has plenty of money only to find she didn't and complications follow in a amusing way. (Print Ad- Rock Rapids Review ((Rock Rapids Iowa)) 30 August 1928)
How would you like to be hired to protect the man you love from the woman he has fallen for? Marion Davies is the girl-what a girl!- in her grandest film frolic. (Print Ad-True Republican, ((Sycamore, Ills.)) 26 September 1928)
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Keywords

based on play
tennis
fiance
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Country of Origin

United States of America

Languages

English

Release Dates

April 22nd, 1929 (Denmark)
August 26th, 1929 (Finland)
February 21st, 1929 (Hungary)
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Alternative Titles

The Cardboard Lover (original title)
Her Cardboard Lover
Quando uma Pequena Quer (Brazil)
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Locations

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA (studio)

Running Times

77 min

Sound Mixes

Silent

Aspect Ratios

1.33 : 1

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cosmopolitan Productions (for)

Distribution Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (United States of America)

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