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Children of Pleasure

CHILDREN OF PLEASURE

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CREDITS

1930, 68 minutes, B&W.
Director, Harry Beaumont; Screenplay, Richard Schayer and Wilbur Crane; Cinematography, Percy Hilburn; Choreography, Sammy Lee.

CAST

Danny Regan, Lawrence Gray; Pat Thayer, Helen Johnson; Emma Gray, Wynne Gibson; Rod Peck, Kenneth Thomson; Bernie, Lee Kohlmar; Fanny Kaye, May Boley; Andy Little, Benny Rubin.

SONGS

Leave It That Way; Dust; Girl Trouble by Andy Rice and Fred Fisher; A Couple of Birds With the Same Thought In Mind by Howard Johnson, Edward Ward and Reggie Montgomery; The Whole Darned Thing's for You by Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Lawrence Gray played a songwriting heel in Children Of Pleasure, completely oblivious of the love being bestowed on him by pretty Helen Johnson. He only has eyes for heiress Wynne Gibson who has agreed to marry him but, after overhearing her telling a friend that she regards their impending marriage as nothing more than an experiment, he changes his mind and - you guessed it - abandons her for patient little Helen."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"A brisk little musical about the songwriting fraternity. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The MGM Story

"Children Of Pleasure was a fast failure, a late entry in a played-out genre."
- Richard Barrios, A Song In The Dark


The screenplay was adapted from the stage play The Songwriter by Crane Wilbur.

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