Paddy the Next Best Thing
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Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933
) is a film starring Janet Gaynor
and Warner Baxter
. The screen comedy
was written by Edwin J. Burke and Gertrude Page
, and directed by Harry Lachman
.
Both the film's leads were Oscar winners; Janet Gaynor
won the first Academy Award for Best Actress
in 1928 and Warner Baxter
won the second Academy Award for Best Actor
in 1929.
1933 in film
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) is a film starring Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...
and Warner Baxter
Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
. The screen comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
was written by Edwin J. Burke and Gertrude Page
Gertrude Page
Gertrude Eliza Page was an Anglo-Rhodesian novelist.-Biography:Educated at Bedford High School, Page wrote for the Girl's Own Paper as a teenager...
, and directed by Harry Lachman
Harry Lachman
Harry B. Lachman was an American artist, set designer, and film director.Born La Salle, Illinois, Lachman was educated at the University of Michigan before becoming a magazine and book illustrator, contributing 4 colour illustrations to the 1907 work John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer by Charles...
.
Both the film's leads were Oscar winners; Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...
won the first Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
in 1928 and Warner Baxter
Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
won the second Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
in 1929.
Cast
- Janet GaynorJanet GaynorJanet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...
as Patty Adair - Warner BaxterWarner BaxterWarner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
as Lawrence Blake - Walter ConnollyWalter ConnollyWalter Connolly was an American character actor who appeared in almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939.Connolly was a successful stage actor who appeared in twenty-two Broadway productions between 1916 and 1935, notably revivals of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Chekhov's...
as Major Adair - Harvey Stephens as Jack Breen
- Margaret LindsayMargaret LindsayMargaret Lindsay was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive...
as Eileen Adair - Fiske O'Hara as Mr. Davy
- Merle Tottenham as the Maid
- Roger Imhoff as Micky
- Mary McCormicMary McCormicMary McCormic was an American operatic soprano and a professor of opera at the University of North Texas College of Music ....
as Mary McCormicMary McCormicMary McCormic was an American operatic soprano and a professor of opera at the University of North Texas College of Music .... - Joseph M. Kerrigan as Collins
- Claire McDowell as Miss Breen
- Merle Tottenham as the Maid
- Trevor Bland as Sellaby
- Mary McCormicMary McCormicMary McCormic was an American operatic soprano and a professor of opera at the University of North Texas College of Music ....
as herself