A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

John Barrymore
as Oscar Jaffe

Carole Lombard
as Lily Garland, formerly Mildred Plotka

Walter Connolly
as Oliver Webb

Roscoe Karns
as Owen O'Malley

Ralph Forbes
as George Smith

Charles Lane
as Max Jacobs

Etienne Girardot
as Matthew J. Clark

Dale Fuller
as Sadie

Edgar Kennedy
as Oscar McGonigle

Billie Seward
as Anita
barrymost
You'd best hold on tight and don't let go because you're in for quite the ride on board the Twentieth Century. It's screwball comedy taken to the absolute max, and it barely lets up for a minute. It's one ridiculously memorable (or memorably ridiculous) scene after another, with just a couple high...
CinemaSerf
I'm not quite sure what the title had to do with anything, but this is still an enjoyable opportunity for John Barrymore and Carole Lombard to have some theatrical games of cat and mouse with a bit of help from the long suffering Walter Connolly's "Oliver" and the permanently sozzled "Owen" (Roscoe ...