Reaching for the Moon
movie
What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.
Released December 29, 1930
Overview
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks
as
Larry Day
Bebe Daniels
as
Vivien Benton
Edward Everett Horton
as
Roger, the Valet
Claud Allister
as
Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Jack Mulhall
as
Jimmy Carrington
Walter Walker
as
James Benton
June MacCloy
as
Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings
Helen Jerome Eddy
as
Larry's Secretary
Bing Crosby
as
Bing
William H. O'Brien
as
Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
as
Ship's Party Guest (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
as
Associate (uncredited)
Crew
Edmund Goulding
as
Director
Irving Berlin
as
Story
Edmund Goulding
as
Writer
Elsie Janis
as
Additional Dialogue
Elsie Janis
as
Writer
Douglas Fairbanks
as
Producer
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Robert H. Planck
as
Cinematography
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Hal C. Kern
as
Editor
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Lloyd Nosler
as
Editor
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Julia Heron
as
Set Decoration
William Cameron Menzies
as
Production Design
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David Cox
as
Costume Designer