Ladies in Love (1936) Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett.mp4

Director: Edward H. Griffith

Writers: Melville Baker (screen play), Leslie Bush-Fekete (based on the play by) (as Ladislaus Bus-Fekete)

Stars: Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett | See full cast & crew »


Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.


Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the Budapest of the mid-1930s. Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young and Constance Bennett combine their earnings to rent a luxurious apartment, in hopes of attracting wealthy potential husbands. Young falls for a nobleman (Tyrone Power), who is engaged to another woman. She contemplates taking poison, but the lethal dose is accidentally ingested by Gaynor, whose plight results in a house call from Dr. Don Ameche, whom Gaynor has worshipped from afar. It is Bennett who snags the wealthy husband, middle-aged businessman Wilfred Lawson. Though Tyrone Power's part was small, he clicked immediately with the audiences, prompting the studio to give Power the big buildup. Ladies in Love would be reworked several times in the future, most obviously as How to Marry a Millionaire.