Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1930
Directed by King Vidor
Cast:
Marion Davies, Elliott Nugent, Franklin Pangborn, Donald Ogden Stewart.
Synopsis:
Adapted from a hit stage play and 1923 silent film called "Dulcy", this is
a story of a dimwitted fiance' who ruins everything she is exposed to. Dulcy (Marion
Davies) invites her fiance's boss and a house full of half baked friends to her cabin for
a weekend party. The intent is to butter up the boss so Gordy (the fiance) will be offered
a larger share of the business.
Dulcy has a million sayings that are familiar to all of us, only she can never get them
straight. "The early worm always gets the bird....." The boss, Mr. Forbes, is rattled because his wife is spending too much time with
a hair brained golfer, and because Dulcy won't leave him alone. This script was tailored
for Marion and it fits her like a glove, the film is hilarious.
Dulcy helps Mr. Forbes daughter elope with a wacky screen writer who has just finished
hours and hours of describing his latest picture called "Sin Throughout the
Ages". Of course Dulcy has bungled her mission to impress the boss and soon Gordy is
fired. The film ends happily though with everything resolved and Mr. Forbes daughter
married to Dulcy's Brother.