Children of Pleasure (1930)

Directors

Harry Beaumont

Cast

Ann Dvorak, Cliff Edwards, Edward Martindel, Jack Benny, Jay Eaton, Lawrence Gray, Mary Carlisle, Polly Ann Young, Sidney Bracey, Wynne Gibson

The story

Danny, an acclaimed singer and songwriter, falls in love with a socialite girl who he then overhears admitting that she is stringing him along just in time to avoid marriage. Danny is notably Jewish, and among the issues the film raises is his temptation to assimilate into the larger culture. The film is an adaptation of a play that riffed on the real-life relationship between songwriter Irving Berlin and Long Island socialite Ellin Mackay, which was all over the gossip columns in the late 1920s.

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