Shopworn Movie
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| Run Time: | 72 min |
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| Released: | 1932 |
| Directors: |
Nick Grinde |
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Drama Romance Romantic Drama Melodrama |
| Producers: |
Harry Cohn |
Plot Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this old-fashioned but rather poignant melodrama. A waitress in her aunt and uncle's café, orphaned Kitty Lane falls in love with society scion Dave Livingston (Regis Toomey). Much to Mrs. Livingston's regret, Dave is equally smitten and the society matron (Clara Blandick) has Kitty convicted on a trumped up charge of prostitution. While Dave accompanies his mother on a long trip to Europe, Kitty serves her time in reform school and later becomes a successful showgirl. Reunited after several years, Dave and Kitty resume their romance and Mrs. Livingston once again attempts to talk Kitty out of marrying her son, this time by brandishing a firearm. Like Marguerite Gautier had before her, Kitty is about to sacrifice her love when Dave's mother suddenly has a change of heart.
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Cast
| Actors | Character | Born |
| Barbara Stanwyck | Kitty Lane | Jul 16, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY |
| Regis Toomey | David Livingston | Aug 13, 1898 in Pittsburgh, PA |
| ZaSu Pitts | Dot | Jan 3, 1900 in Parsons, KS |
| Lucien Littlefield | Fred | Aug 16, 1895 in San Antonio, TX |
| Clara Blandick | Mrs. Livingston | Jun 4, 1880 in Hong Kong Harbor |
| Robert Alden | Toby | |
| Oscar Apfel | Judge Forbes | Jan 17, 1878 in Cleveland, OH |
| Maude Turner Gordon | Mrs. Thorne | |
| Wallis Clark | Mr. Dean | Mar 2, 1882 in Exeter, England |
| Edwin Maxwell | Bierbauer | |
| Joan Standing | ||
| Dorothea Wolbert | Apr 12, 1874 in Philadelphia, PA | |
| Martha Mattox | ||
| Joe Sawyer | ||
| Albert Conti | Andre | Jan 29, 1887 in Trieste, Austria |
| James Durkin | District Attorney |
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Review by Hans J. Wollstein
Although Barbara Stanwyck would later dismiss Shopworn as "one of those terrible pictures they sandwiched in when you started," she offers her usual competent performance as the waitress unfairly convicted and sent to reform school on a charge of lewdness. In Columbia's pre-release version, Stanwyck's Kitty apparently did enter the world's oldest profession, but although the Production Code Administration was not as severe in 1932 as it would become two years later, the censor made the producers alter the scenario prior to release. We shall never know how the original Shopworn would have played, but it is still a bit alarming to see the future Aunt Em (Clara Blandick) threaten to shoot poor Stanwyck. One question remains, however: is the rather stolid Regis Toomey really worth all this fuss?
