I Believed in You
Cast & Crew
Irving Cummings
Rosemary Ames
Victor Jory
John Boles
Gertrude Michael
George Meeker
Film Details
Synopsis
After miners attack Jim Crowl, a labor agitator trying to incite them to strike, he seeks refuge from the police at the home of True Merrill, a naive would-be writer who has lived all her life with her recently deceased father. Jim cajoles True into wanting to experience love, hate and suffering, and convinces her to accompany him to New York. In Greenwich Village, True enjoys Jim's Bohemian friends, all of whom patronize the Pig's Eye cafe: unpublished poet Saracen Jones; struggling artist Russell Storm; and dancer Vavara, with whom, unknown to True, Jim is involved. When the group, who all live in Russell's apartment, are evicted, Jim, who is really an agitator for mercenary reasons, conducts a sidewalk auction of Russell's paintings, which turns into a brawl due to Jim's inflammatory criticisms of society. True slaps wealthy dilettante Michael Harrison after he facetiously offers to buy a painting just to destroy it, and she is sentenced to ten days in jail, as is Jim. Later, Michael apologizes to True and, after calling her friends phonies, invites her to meet successful artists and writers. When True argues that her friends have not had the opportunities that Michael's friends have had, Michael proposes a deal: he will pay the expenses of her friends for six months, and if even one makes good or shows gratitude, he will buy True a drink; however, if they all fail, she will have an obligation to him. True agrees and writes a novel entitled I Believed in You . The others, however, squander their money. When they demand more, True explodes and calls them fakers. Still believing in Jim, she then overhears him tell another woman the same things he once told her. She walks disillusioned throughout the city and onto a bridge, but after hearing voices from the past, she gains new confidence and visits the publishers Lang and Long, who sign her to a contract. True then gives Michael her royalty check as her first repayment. When he proposes, she says that she must go on alone for now, and that maybe they will meet in the future.
Director
Irving Cummings
Cast
Rosemary Ames
Victor Jory
John Boles
Gertrude Michael
George Meeker
Leslie Fenton
Joyzelle
Jed Prouty
Morgan Wallace
Luis Alberni
Jack Luden
Russ Clark
Harry Woods
Sam Ash
Frederick Vogeding
Vadim Uraneff
Arthur Housman
Robert Walker
Tom London
Charles C. Wilson
Tony Stabenau
Tammany Young
George Davis
Ruth Gillette
Joan Dix
Treva Lawler
Jeanne Hart
Ruth Marion
Louise Beavers
Lenita Lane
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Walter Walker
Eddie Hart
Niles Welch
Kay Hammond
Ralph Emerson
Freeman Wood
Bess Flowers
Gaylord Pendleton
Felice Tyler
Reginald Simpson
Ernest Belcher
Crew
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
The working title of this film was Disillusion, which was the title of William Anthony McGuire's unpublished original story. A Hollywood Reporter news item from November 25, 1931 noted that Fox signed Elmer Harris to do the screenplay of McGuire's story. No information has been located to determine if Harris contributed anything to the final film. This was Rosemary Ames's first film. Jack Luden was a member of the Luden cough drop family, according to Variety. While credits on the film list Jed Prouty as "Long" and Morgan Wallace as "Lang," Prouty clearly says a number of times, "I'm Lang, he's [meaning Wallace] Long."
