With Love and Kisses
{{short description|1936 film by Leslie Goodwins}}
{{Infobox film
| name = With Love and Kisses
| image = With Love and Kisses.jpg
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| director = Leslie Goodwins
| producer = Maurice Conn
Coy Poe
| writer = Al Martin
Sherman L. Lowe
| narrator =
| starring = Pinky Tomlin
Toby Wing
Kane Richmond
| music = Edward J. Kay
| cinematography = Arthur Reed
| editing = Martin G. Cohn
| studio = Conn Pictures
| distributor = Ambassador Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1936|12|7}}
| runtime = 67 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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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.Langman p.134 It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature for release by Ambassador Pictures.Pitts p.32
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
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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
- {{IMDb title|0029787}}
{{Leslie Goodwins}}
Category:1936 comedy-drama films
Category:1936 musical comedy films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:1930s musical comedy-drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American musical comedy-drama films
Category:English-language musical comedy-drama films
Category:Films directed by Leslie Goodwins
Category:Films set in New York City
Category:Films with screenplays by Sherman Lowe
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