With Love and Kisses
1936 film by Leslie Goodwins
- December 7, 1936 (1936-12-07)
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With Love and Kisses is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Pinky Tomlin, Toby Wing and Kane Richmond.[1] It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature for release by Ambassador Pictures.[2]
The film depicts the troubled life of a songwriter in New York City. He has one of his songs stolen, he struggles to find inspiration for further songs, and he is involved in the life of a female singer.
Plot
Homer 'Spec' Higgins, a songwriter from rural Arkansas heads to New York City to make his fortune. However he is tricked by a radio star Don Gray who steals his song and claims it as his own. Further complications ensue when Higgins is backed by an ex-racketeer to produce more hit songs, but is unable to do so without Minnie, his Jersey cow from back home. He also became entangled with singer Barbara Holbrook and her drunken lawyer brother.
Cast
- Pinky Tomlin as Homer 'Spec' Higgins
- Toby Wing as Barbara Holbrook
- Kane Richmond as Don Gray
- Arthur Housman as Gilbert Holbrook
- Russell Hopton as Flash Henderson
- Jerry Bergen as Himself
- Peters Sisters as Themselves
- Fuzzy Knight as Butch
- G. Pat Collins as Joe
- Olaf Hytten as Dickson
References
Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. McFarland, 2000.
- Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
- With Love and Kisses at IMDb
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Films directed by Leslie Goodwins
- Dummy Ache (1936)
- With Love and Kisses (1936)
- Headline Crasher (1936)
- The Devil Diamond (1937)
- Anything for a Thrill (1937)
- Should Wives Work? (1937)
- Deep South (1937)
- Crime Ring (1938)
- Fugitives for a Night (1938)
- Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938)
- Tarnished Angel (1938)
- Almost a Gentleman (1939)
- The Girl from Mexico (1939)
- Sued for Libel (1939)
- The Day the Bookies Wept (1939)
- Mexican Spitfire (1940)
- Pop Always Pays (1940)
- Men Against the Sky (1940)
- Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
- Let's Make Music (1941)
- They Met in Argentina (1941)
- Parachute Battalion (1941)
- The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
- Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
- Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
- Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
- Ladies' Day (1943)
- Gals, Incorporated (1943)
- Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)
- The Adventures of a Rookie (1943)
- Silver Skates (1943)
- Rookies in Burma (1943)
- Casanova in Burlesque (1944)
- Goin' to Town (1944)
- The Singing Sheriff (1944)
- Hi, Beautiful (1944)
- The Mummy's Curse (1944)
- I'll Tell the World (1945)
- An Angel Comes to Brooklyn (1945)
- Riverboat Rhythm (1946)
- Genius at Work (1946)
- Vacation in Reno (1946)
- Dragnet (1947)
- The Lone Wolf in London (1947)
- Gold Fever (1952)
- Fireman Save My Child (1954)
- Paris Follies of 1956 (1955)
- The Go-Getter (1956)
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