Stop--Look and Love
Cast & Crew
Otto Brower
Jean Rogers
William Frawley
Robert Kellard
Eddie Collins
Minna Gombell
Film Details
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Synopsis
Easy-going Joe Haller looks forward to telling his family about his promotion to factory superintendent, but when he arrives home, he discovers that they have already been told by Harry Neville, the boyfriend of Joe's precocious daughter Dora. Joe reprimands his son Willie for not looking for a job in the four months since graduating from high school, but his pushy wife Emma tells him to encourage their twenty-one-year-old daughter Louise to get married instead. Emma does not realize that Louise's lack of beaus is due to her own meddling and the way she treats every suitor as a prospective son-in-law. At dinner that night, she harps on the subject too long, and Louise leaves the house after claiming she has a date. Louise goes to the movies alone and there meets fledgling architect Dick Grant, who is impressed by Louise's beauty and unpretentious nature. Louise gives Dick suggestions about a house design he shows her, and the couple promise to meet again. When she returns home, Louise tells Joe about Dick, but is repelled by Emma's insistence that she should have invited her young man inside. Two weeks later, Louise and Dick have been seeing each other often and have fallen in love. Dick incorporates Louise's suggestions into his design and receives a raise when his boss, J. D. Bogart, likes it. Dick begins thinking of marriage, while Louise realizes she will have to bow to Emma's demand that she be allowed to meet Dick. Louise and Dick plan on picnicking one Saturday afternoon, and Louise asks him to call for her at home, rather than at the flower shop where they usually meet. Joe agrees to try to keep Emma in check, but things begin to fall apart when Dick arrives while Louise is upstairs dressing. Joe does not hear as Emma exaggerates the cost of a new dress that is delivered to Louise, or as she misleads Dick into thinking that Louise is used to living luxuriously. Joe tries to dissuade Louise when she invites the family along on the picnic, but he is called away suddenly to help a neighbor. Left alone with Dick, Emma tells him that Louise has many beaus and always demands the finest things. Louise comes down as Dick sorrowfully states that he would not be able to give her the things Emma has discussed. Infuriated and humiliated, Louise castigates her mother for pushing Dick to propose and, after Emma leaves the room, explains to Dick that this is why she did not invite him sooner. Despite Dick's assertion that he was going to propose to her today anyway, Louise states she cannot see him anymore. Joe comes back as Louise is running upstairs and discovers that she is going to visit her aunt. Joe then tells Dick where Louise is going and advises him to go after her. Dick follows Louise to her bus stop, where he proceeds to get in a fight with two of Louise's co-workers who think that Dick is pestering her. The fight soon turns into a huge brawl as men from all over the neighborhood join in, and Louise realizes that she and Dick are meant for each other as she fights by his side. Soon after, the couple laugh together as they drive in Dick's car and admire each other's black eyes.
Director
Otto Brower
Cast
Jean Rogers
William Frawley
Robert Kellard
Eddie Collins
Minna Gombell
Cora Sue Collins
Jay Ward
Roger Mcgee
Lillian Porter
Arthur Rankin
Helen Ericson
Fred Kelsey
Paul Burns
Kenneth Stevens
John Butler
Virginia Brissac
Donald Hall
Maurice Cass
Mira Mckinney
Russ Clark
Murray Alper
Eleanor Hansen
Caroline "spike" Rankin
Crew
Clay Adams
William H. Anderson
Lucien Andriot
Lydia Blythe
Teresa Brachetto
R. Braggins
Don Bush
Sidney Clare
Gordon Cooper
Sada Cowan
Richard Day
Nick De Maggio
William Eckhardt
Cecil Eveland
Willon Fieldz
Eddie Fitzgerald
Hank Gersen
Chester Gore
Les Haas
Gladys Isaacson
Samuel Kaylin
George Leverett
Harold C. Lewis
Thomas Little
Jack Mcavoy
Kenneth Mcdonald
Helen A. Myron
Stanley Rabjohn
Aaron Rosenberg
Roger Shearman
Jule Styne
Frank Sullivan
Harold Tarshis
Art Wright
Sol M. Wurtzel
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Notes
The working title of this film was Harmony at Home. According to information in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, Helen Freeman was originally hired to play the role of Emma Haller. Fox produced two other films based on the Harry Delf play: The Family Upstairs, a 1926 silent directed by J. G. Blystone and starring Virginia Valley; and Harmony at Home, a 1930 picture directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Marguerite Churchill and Rex Bell (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.1631 and F2.2325).
