Diamond Jim
Diamond Jim is a 1935 biographical film based on the published biography Diamond Jim Brady by Parker Morell. It follows the life of legendary entrepreneur James Buchanan Brady, including his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell, and stars Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Cesar Romero and Binnie Barnes.
Diamond Jim Brady Edward Arnold is born to an Irish saloonkeeper and his wife in 1856, but is soon orphaned. At the age of thirty, working as baggage master at the Spuyten Duyvil train station, he rents a suit and a diamond from a pawn shop, and gets a job as a salesman soon, he is the top salesman on the staff.While on a crosscontinental sales trip, Brady rescues Mr. Fox Eric Blore from a crooked salesman, but in the process they are forced to jump from the train. Brady soon discovers that Mr. Fox is trying to sell something called an undertruck to be used at railroad stations, so he takes on the product himself. With success, Brady wants to marry his sweetheart, Emma Perry Jean Arthur, but finds out that she is engaged. Heartbroken, he devotes all of his energy to the BradyFox Company. ........
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