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Love Before Breakfast
Love Before Breakfast
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Walter Lang
Written by	Short story:; Faith Baldwin; Film story:; Claude Binyon (uncredited); Treatment:; Harry Clork; Doris Malloy; Preston Sturges; (all uncredited); Add'l Dialogue:; Gertrude Purcell (uncredited); Screenplay:; Herbert Fields
Produced by	Edmund Grainger
Starring	Carole Lombard; Preston Foster; Cesar Romero
Cinematography	Ted Tetzlaff
Edited by	Maurice Wright
Music by	Arthur Morton; Franz Waxman
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	March 9, 1936;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Love Before Breakfast is a 1936 American romantic comedy film starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, and Cesar Romero, based on Faith Baldwin's short story Spinster Dinner, published in International-Cosmopolitan in July 1934. The film was directed by Walter Lang from a screenplay by Herbert Fields assisted by numerous contract writers, including Preston Sturges.

Plot

Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a Park Avenue beauty with two suitors: fiancé Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero) and Scott Miller (Preston Foster). To clear his way, Scott buys the oil company Bill works for and sends him to Japan. Then he sends his own girl friend, Countess Campanella (Betty Lawford), to Honolulu to get her out of the way as well. Kay is upset by Bill's leaving, and annoyed by Scott pressing his suit, but Scott has the assistance and approval of Kay's mother (Janet Beecher) in his efforts, and the advice of his friend and business partner, Brinkerhoff (Richard Carle).^[1]

Cast

Carole Lombard as Kay Colby
Preston Foster as Scott Miller
Cesar Romero as Bill Wadsworth
Janet Beecher as Mrs. Colby
Betty Lawford as Countess Campanella
Richard Carle as Brinkerhoff
Forrester Harvey as chief steward
Joyce Compton as Mary Lee
Bert Roach as Party Host
Diana Gibson as the secretary
John Rogers as Dickson
Donald Briggs as Stuart Farnum
George Beranger as Charles
Jack Mower as Doorman
Alphonse Martell as Headwaiter at Dubin's
Dennis O'Keefe as College Boy
Ada Mae Vaughn as College Girl
Theodore von Eltz as Clerk
E.E. Clive as Yacht Captain
Edward Earle as Quartermaster

Production

Love Before Breakfast had the working title of Spinster Dinner, the title of the Faith Baldwin short story it was based on. Several months before filming began, it was reported that Melvyn Douglas would take the male lead.

Carole Lombard was under contract to Paramount, who lent her to Universal for this film, in exchange for Margaret Sullavan going there to do So Red The Rose. Lombard also brought technical staff from Paramount, including photographer Ted Tetzlaff and costume designer Travis Banton.^[2]

Lombard, who had the contractual right to reject scripts, did not like the ones she was presented for Love Before Breakfast, including those written by Preston Sturges, Claude Binyon, Samuel Hoffenstein, Harry Clork, Doris Malloy and William Conselman. Eventually, she accepted Herbert Fields's script.^[2]

Love Before Breakfast was in production from 16 December 1935 to 27 January 1936,^[3] and was released on 9 March 1936.