- Laughter (film)
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name = Laughter
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director =Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
producer =Monta Bell
writer = Harry d'Abbadie d'ArrastDouglas Z. Doty (also story)Herman J. Mankiewicz Donald Ogden Stewart
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starring =Fredric March Nancy Carroll
music =Vernon Duke (uncredited)
cinematography =George J. Folsey
editing =Helene Turner
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released =25 September 1930
runtime = 85 min
country =United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0021053"Laughter" is a 1930 film directed by
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and starringFredric March ,Nancy Carroll andFrank Morgan .The film was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Story .Plot
Peggy is a Follies dancer who forsakes her life of carefree attachments in order to meet her goal of marrying a millionaire. Alas, her elderly husband, broker C. Morton Gibson, is a well-meaning bore, and soon Peggy begins seeking entertainment elsewhere. A year after their marriage, three significant events occur almost simultaneously. Peggy's former boyfriend, Paul Lockridge, a composer and pianist who is in love with her and seems to have a funny quip for every occasion, returns from Paris. She reunites with him as he offers her his companionship as a diversion from her stuffy life. Also, Ralph Le Saint, a young devil-may-care sculptor who is still in love with Peggy, plans his suicide in a mood of bitterness, and Gibson's daughter, Marjorie, returns from schooling abroad. Marjorie is soon paired with Ralph, and the romance that develops between them is paralleled by the adult affair between Peggy and Paul. Ralph and Marjorie's escapades result in considerable trouble for Morton, while Paul implores Peggy to go to Paris with him, declaring "You are rich--dirty rich. You are dying. You need laughter to make you clean," but she refuses. When Marjorie plans to elope with Ralph, Peggy exposes the sculptor as a fortune hunter, and dejected, he commits suicide. As a result, Peggy confesses her unhappiness to Gibson, then joins Paul and laughter in Paris.
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