Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Directors

Dorothy Arzner

Cast

Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

The story

Jerry Corbett, a Chicago reporter and self-styled playwright, meets heiress Joan Prentice at a party and they begin dating. Jerry soon proposes to Joan, and even though his economic prospects are dim and he is an alcoholic, Joan accepts his marriage proposal, against the objections of her father. Even though Jerry becomes heavily intoxicated just before their engagement party, ruining it, Joan stands by him.

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