Love Before Breakfast
1936 · 1h 10m · Comedy, Romance · United States of America
It was love at first FIGHT!... So they married in HATE and lived SCRAPPILY ever after!
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Directed by
Walter LangWritten by
Herbert Fields, Preston Sturges, Harry Clork, Samuel Hoffenstein, Doris Malloy, Gertrude PurcellStory by
Claude BinyonBased on the novel by
Faith Baldwin6.0Smart score
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