The Good Fairy (film)

The Good Fairy is a 1935 romantic comedy film written by Preston Sturges, based on the 1930 play A j tndr by Ferenc Molnr as translated and adapted by Jane Hinton, which was produced on Broadway in 1931. The film was directed by William Wyler and stars Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan and Reginald Owen.

Luisa Ginglebusher Margaret Sullavan is a young, naive orphan who is given a job as an usherette in a Budapest movie palace. Detlaff Reginald Owen, a waiter she meets in the theatre, takes her to an exclusive party where, to hold off the advances of Konrad Frank Morgan, a meatpacking millionaire a little too fond of drink, she picks a name from the phone book to be her husband, hoping to do a good deed and divert some of Konrads wealth to someone else.When the lucky man, stuffy but poor Dr. Max Sporum Herbert Marshall, gets a 5year employment contract and a big bonus from Konrad, he thinks the millionaire is interested in him because of his ethical behavior, diligent hard work and integrity, but actually Konrad plans to send the husband to South America so that he will be free to seduce the girl. Many complications ensue when Lu gets curious about Sporum, and pays him a visit. ........

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