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Friday, May 1 @ 9:00 PM
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (Film Studies Center Screening Room)
915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
☆ LADIES MUST LOVE ☆
Directed by E. A. Dupont • 1933
Following the international success of his sordid carnival tale Variety (1925), Berliner Ewald André Dupont went on a globe-trotting tour, making movies in America, Britain, and France. By the early ‘30s, he was back in Germany, making big-budget talkies in multilingual versions for global consumption. His Jewish roots soon necessitated emigrating to America, where the renowned cosmopolitan was assigned B pictures, beginning with this energetic musical comedy, an attempt to cash in on the “gold digger” craze of the moment. Penned by Belvidere, Illinois native William Hurlbut, the story concerns a quartet of desperate gals who form a makeshift covenant, promising that whoever lands a sugar daddy must share her revenue with all four. Jeannie (June Knight) is the first to wrap an affluent stooge around her finger, but complications ensue: she might be (gasp!) falling in love with the mark. Despite a memorable “Tyrolean sequence,” the film didn’t quite catch on; Dupont went on a filmmaking hiatus at the end of the decade, and none of the four leading ladies would make another movie after 1943. (GW)
70 min • Universal Pictures • 35mm from Universal
Date & Time
Fri, May 1, 2026 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Venue Details
Logan Center For the Arts Screening Room 201
915 East 60th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637
