The Show-Off (1934 film)

The Show-Off
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Directed byCharles Reisner
Written byHerman J. Mankiewicz
Based onThe Show-Off
by George Kelly
Produced byLucien Hubbard
StarringSpencer Tracy
Madge Evans
Henry Wadsworth
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byWilliam S. Gray
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • March 9, 1934 (1934-03-09)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$162,000[1][2]
Box office$397,000[1][2]

The Show-Off is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Spencer Tracy, Madge Evans and Henry Wadsworth. It is notable for being the first movie Tracy made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; he was on loan-out from Fox at the time and later moved to MGM.

Based on the hit play of the same name by George Kelly, it made a profit of $78,000.[1] Previously filmed twice by Paramount Pictures in 1926 and 1930, under the title Men Are Like That, and MGM remade the film in 1946, starring Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell.

  1. ^ a b c James Curtis, Spencer Tracy: A Biography, Alfred Knopf, 2011 p231
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.