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“You must stay between him and me always. Always!” Love-struck Consuelo Croyden (Norma Shearer) can’t trust herself around dashing Tony Barling (George Sanders). So she hires songwriter Terry Trindale (Robert Taylor), who’s just as nuts about her as she is about Tony, to pose as her beau—and step in when Tony’s charms make Consuelo forget she’s a lady.
In Her Cardboard Lover, three screen greats play a farcical game of he-loves-and-she-loves, complete with ruses, slapped faces, fisticuffs and Terry donning Consuelo’s satin PJs, but it all comes romantically right at the end.
With this frothy comedy, Norma Shearer bid adieu to the movies after 62 films, a Best Actress Academy Award® (for 1930s The Divorcee) and over a decade as the reigning queen of the MGM lot. She surrounded herself with top talent for her farewell: her two leading men and director George Cukor, who helmed Shearer’s The Women three years previously.
Original Release
07/16/1942
US Release
07/16/1942
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Norma Shearer | Consuelo Croyden |
Robert Taylor | Terry Trindale |
George Sanders | Tony Barling |
Frank McHugh | Chappie Champagne |
Elizabeth Patterson | Eva |
Chill Wills | Judge |
King Baggot | Police Officer in Courtroom |
John Berkes | Waiter |
Edward Biby | Casino Patron |
Ben Carter | Elevator Operator |
Directors
Writers
Jacques Deval, Valerie Wyngate, P.G. Wodehouse, John Collier, Anthony Veiller, William H. Wright
Cast
Name | Character |
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Norma Shearer | Consuelo Croyden |
Robert Taylor | Terry Trindale |
George Sanders | Tony Barling |
Frank McHugh | Chappie Champagne |
Elizabeth Patterson | Eva |
Chill Wills | Judge |
King Baggot | Police Officer in Courtroom |
John Berkes | Waiter |
Edward Biby | Casino Patron |
Ben Carter | Elevator Operator |
Hobart Cavanaugh | Arresting Plainclothesman |
Heinie Conklin | Drunk in Courtroom |
Richard Crane | Casino Page |
Russell Custer | Courtroom Spectator |
Helen Dickson | Casino Patron |
Frank Elliott | Croupier |
Rex Evans | Dogar - Hotel Desk Clerk |
Franklyn Farnum | Casino Patron |
George Ford | Casino Patron |
Jean Fowler | Casino Patron |
Producers
Name | Role |
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J. Walter Ruben | Producer |