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Love In The Rough (1930)

• Director
  • Charles Reisner
• Writers
  • Vincent Lawrence(play "Spring Fever")
  • Sarah Y. Mason(adaptation)
  • Joseph Farnham(dialogue)
• Stars
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Dorothy Jordan
  • Benny Rubin

  A remake of the 1927 William Haines comedy Spring Fever, Love in the Rough was designed as a musical, though virtually all the songs were cut from the final release print (we see a chorus of secretaries typing rhythmically in the opening scene, yet this obvious song cue is cut short with nary a note). Robert Montgomery steps into the Haines role as Kelly, a shipping clerk who poses as an executive to gain access to a ritzy country club. Here he boasts of his prowess as a golfer, hoping to win the heart of heiress Marilyn (Dorothy Jordan). Amazingly, our hero bluffs his way into a golf tournament -- and wins, with the help of Jewish caddie Benny (Benny Rubin). If second lead Dorothy McNulty looks familiar, she should: eight years later, under her new nom de film of Penny Singleton, she starred in Columbia's Blondie series.