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Film · 1930

Reaching for the Moon

What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.

Directed by Edmund GouldingDouglas FairbanksBebe DanielsEdward Everett Horton
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29 Dec 1930Released
1h 13mRunning time

The story

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

Larry Day
Bebe Daniels

Bebe Daniels

Vivien Benton
Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Roger, the Valet

Claud Allister

Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Jack Mulhall

Jack Mulhall

Jimmy Carrington

Walter Walker

James Benton
June MacCloy

June MacCloy

Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings
Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy

Larry's Secretary
Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby

Bing
William H. O'Brien

William H. O'Brien

Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe

Ship's Party Guest (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock

Lloyd Whitlock

Associate (uncredited)
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