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Penthouse is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film starring Warner Baxter as a lawyer and Myrna Loy, as a call girl who helps him with a murder case. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on a novel by Arthur Somers Roche. The film was later remade as the more sanitized Society Lawyer (1939), without the risqué pre-Code dialogue.
Original Release
09/08/1933
US Release
09/08/1933
Cast
Name | Character |
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Warner Baxter | Jackson Durant / Jackson 'Jack' Durant |
Myrna Loy | Gertie Waxted |
Charles Butterworth | Layton |
Mae Clarke | Mimi Montagne |
Phillips Holmes | Tom Siddall |
C. Henry Gordon | Jim Crelliman |
Martha Sleeper | Sue Leonard |
Nat Pendleton | Tony Gazotti |
George E. Stone | Murtoch / Tim Murtoch |
Robert Emmett O'Connor | Stevens / Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens |
Directors
Writers
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Arthur Somers Roche
Cast
Name | Character |
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Warner Baxter | Jackson Durant / Jackson 'Jack' Durant |
Myrna Loy | Gertie Waxted |
Charles Butterworth | Layton |
Mae Clarke | Mimi Montagne |
Phillips Holmes | Tom Siddall |
C. Henry Gordon | Jim Crelliman |
Martha Sleeper | Sue Leonard |
Nat Pendleton | Tony Gazotti |
George E. Stone | Murtoch / Tim Murtoch |
Robert Emmett O'Connor | Stevens / Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens |
Raymond Hatton | Bodyguard |
Arthur Belasco | Bodyguard |
William Bailey | Maitre D' - Pinnacle Club |
Ed Brady | Man at Crelliman's Place |
Lynton Brent | Reporter |
Theresa Harris | Lili - Mimi's Maid |
Edward Hearn | Detective |
Samuel S. Hinds | Stuyvesant - Durant's Law Partner |
Tom Kennedy | Joe - Gazotti's Man |
George Magrill | Crelliman's Butler |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hunt Stromberg | Producer |