Ann Carver's Profession

Old man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him.

Ann Carver's Profession (1933)Director:Edward BuzzellWriter:Robert RiskinStars:Fay Wray, Gene Raymond, Claire Dodd Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies. Crime

While working at the club, he falls in love with an alcoholic, self-destructive patron.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. She marries Bill (Gene Raymond) an architect who has big plans, but isn't as successful as he'd like to be.

Bill decides to take a job at "Club Mirador" to make more money. Action

Screenplay by Fay Wray’s future hubby Bob Riskin; they wouldn’t meet for another seven years. Although Ann receives her law degree and passes the bar exam, she decides to keep house for Bill, who is employed as a draftsman. In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone. We can't get enough of these LGBTQ+ powerhouse pairs.Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?

35mm. Crime Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. Although Bill is ambitious to prove himself beyond his football talent, attractive looks and good singing voice, it is actually Ann … Claire Dodd is in the cast, and one of my favorites, Jessie Ralph, as Terry, the over-dramatic housekeeper.

Certificate: Passed Certificate: Passed Raymond and Wray make a very believable couple, and the script flows with no pot holes or plot-holes.

He rejects her and leaves. A man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet. This sours Lally on all men, while on ... After graduation from Hampden University, Bill "Lightning" Graham, a football star, and Ann Carver, who just passed her bar exam, marry. When Ann is asked to take on a highly profiled legal case, she accepts, and wins. William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. She makes a pass at him when Ann walks into the club leaving Ann with the impression that Bill is cheating on her. A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life. Carole Rogers, a sexy alcoholic singer at the club is taken by Bill's good-looks, voice and physic.

She becomes an overnight success and a media darling. Ann Carver's Profession (1933) Ace lawyer Ann Carver (Fay Wray) must balance her career with her marriage to fledgling architect Bill Graham (Gene Raymond). Certificate: Passed

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Instead of pursuing a career in law, Ann takes on the role of housewife, while Bill is employed as a draftman.

It takes two college lovers– a spoiled, popular athlete from a rich family named Bill and Ann Carver, a girl working her way through her juris doctorate doing dishes– and shows what happens when a time wounds a heel. Undercover cop falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops. Meanwhile, Bill's career is stagnate and Ann is supporting him financially causing the couple to spend less time together.

Certificate: Passed Excellent print quality.Click the button below to add the Ann Carver's Profession (1933) DVD to your wish list.In this melodrama a superb female lawyer finds that her success has emasculated her husband, a rather average architect, who runs away from home and career to become a nightclub singer and save some shred of manly dignity.

Certificate: Passed

Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. (1933, Edward Buzzell) No, not that one. Talk about couples goals! This was made just prior to the film code enforcement, as we can tell by the courtroom scenes, and the backless dresses on F. Wray. Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison. Ann Carver's Profession (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Certificate: Passed

A lot of clever lines and fun scenes, well done by the cast.

When Ann is asked to take on a highly profiled legal case, she accepts, and wins.

Written by Robert Riskin, who won the Oscar for writing "It Happened One Night".

Good, fun entertainment, even if the ending is a little weak.Looking for some great streaming picks?

Fortunately, the court-appointed defense is a superb female lawyer, and in a corny, histrionic speech she manages to convince the jury that he is really innocent. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. 7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Fay Wray’s a lawyer, and so successful that hubby Gene Raymond, a flop as an architect, hits the sauce, becomes a nightclub crooner, and gets mixed up in murder, with a dénouement guaranteed to enrage feminists. I bring this up as it connected me quite handily to Ann Carver’s Profession, a pre-Code tale of the vagaries of female success. Crime

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In this one, she stars as Ann Carver, a working girl who becomes a successful attorney - pretty far ahead of her time!