Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two is a 1937 screwball comedy made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Alfred Santell. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall and Glenda Farrell. Stanwyck and Marshall worked together once more, immediately following this film, on the 20thCenturyFox drama Always Goodbye 1938.

Jonathan is dismayed to discover that his neglected family shipping firm is in dire trouble, and that he will not be receiving his usual check, leaving him broke. Valentine decides to use this news to ignite his ambition. She buys up controlling interest in the company and moves into his home as the new tenant. When he discovers the identity of the new owner, he wrongly assumes she went out with him solely to learn what she could about the company. Furious, he tells her that he will fight to get the company back, but later, to his valet, Butch Eric Blore, he admits he is beaten, as nobody will lend him the money he needs to make the attempt. Butch, who approves of Valentine, informs her of this. She makes Jonathan vice president, but he visits the office only to inform her that Carol has asked him to marry her, and that he has accepted.That afternoon, Valentine tries her best to disrupt the ceremony with the help of noisy bearded window washers, presided over by an increasingly frustrated justice of the peace Donald Meek. Finally, Sam Ransome bursts in and declares that Carol is the mother of his children. The wedding is off, but one of the guests Etienne Girardot recognizes Sam and informs Jonathan. ........

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