The Time, the Place and the Girl

Vitaphone catches the roar of the football crowd.

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1929 / 70min.

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Genres

Comedy

Music

Synopsis

A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss. The film is considered lost, with only its soundtrack remaining.

Directors

Actors

Grant Withers

Vivien Oakland

Gertrude Olmstead

Betty Compson

James Kirkwood

Bert Roach

John Davidson

Gretchen Hartman

Irene Haisman

Gerald King

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