Break of Hearts

Break of Hearts
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Directed byPhilip Moeller
Written byLester Cohen (story)
Victor Heerman
Sarah Y. Mason
Victor Heerman
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringKatharine Hepburn
Charles Boyer
CinematographyRobert De Grasse
Edited byWilliam Hamilton
Music byMax Steiner
Production
company
Release date
  • May 31, 1935 (1935-05-31)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$427,000[1]
Box office$695,000[1]

Break of Hearts is a 1935 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer. The screenplay was written by the team of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, with Anthony Veiller, from a story by Lester Cohen, specifically for Hepburn.

Originally Break of Hearts was intended as a vehicle for Hepburn and John Barrymore. The film was promoted by RKO's advertising department with the catch phrase: "The star of a million moods together with the new idol of the screen." (Francis Lederer actually was first signed-up lead, but the producers replaced him with Charles Boyer.)

  1. ^ a b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56