Bad Sister (1931 film)

Bad Sister
Directed byHobart Henley
Screenplay byEdwin H. Knopf
Tom Reed
Raymond L. Schrock
Based onThe Flirt
1913 novel
by Booth Tarkington
Produced byCarl Laemmle Jr.
StarringConrad Nagel
Sidney Fox
Bette Davis
ZaSu Pitts
Humphrey Bogart
CinematographyKarl Freund
Edited byTed J. Kent
Music byDavid Broekman
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 29, 1931 (1931-03-29)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bad Sister is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The screenplay by Edwin H. Knopf, Tom Reed, and Raymond L. Schrock is based on the 1913 novel The Flirt by Booth Tarkington, which had been filmed in 1916 and 1922.

The film marks the screen debuts of both Bette Davis and Sidney Fox (who was billed over Davis). The cast also includes Humphrey Bogart and ZaSu Pitts in supporting roles. Bad Sister has been preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[1][2]

  1. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress p.11 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Bad Sister, afi.com; accessed September 23, 2015.