After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
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Clark Gable and Constance Bennett | |
Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
Produced by | Robert Z. Leonard Bernard H. Hyman |
Written by | Laurence Stallings dale Van Every |
Screenplay by | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
Starring | Clark Gable Constance Bennett |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
Edited by | Tom Held |
Production company | MGM |
Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $366,000 |
Box office | $1,281,000 |
After Office Hours was the second and last time that Gable and Bennett appeared in a film together, previously he had played a supporting role, a milkman, four years earlier in The Easiest Way (1931).
Screenplay
Jim Branch (Clark Gable), news editor, falls for Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett) while trying to uncover a murder mystery.
- Constance Bennett as Sharon Norwood
- Clark Gable as James 'Jim' Branch
- Stuart Erwin as Hank Parr
- Billie Burke as Mrs. Norwood
- Harvey Stephens as Tommy Bannister
- Katharine Alexander as Julia Patterson
- Hale Hamilton as Henry King Patterson
- Henry Travers as Cap
- Henry Armetta as Italian Diner Owner
- Charles Richman as Jordan
- Herbert Bunston as Barlow, Norwood's Butler
- Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Murchison
- William Demarest as Police Detective
According to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000.