Gentlemen Are Born(1934)
Just out of college and just out of luck...yet they'll found a family on nerve...build a home on bravery...battle the world with a diploma...and defy the world on $18-a-week!
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Movie: Gentlemen Are Born
Top 10 Billed Cast
Bob Bailey
Trudy Talbot
Joan Harper
Susan Merrill
Tom Martin
Smudge Casey
Stephen Hornblow
Newspaper Editor
Fred Harper
Martinson
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A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Release Date
1934-11-17
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6.5
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Just out of college and just out of luck...yet they'll found a family on nerve...build a home on bravery...battle the world with a diploma...and defy the world on $18-a-week!
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