The Gay Deception is a 1935

1935 in film

-Events:*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .*Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.*The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:...

 romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 starring Francis Lederer

Francis Lederer

Francis Lederer was a film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States.-Europe:...

 and Frances Dee

Frances Dee

Frances Marion Dee was an American actress. She starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in the early talkie musical, The Playboy of Paris...

. Writers Stephen Morehouse Avery and Don Hartman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story

Academy Award for Best Story

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940.-1920s:...

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Plot

Secretary Mirabel Miller (Frances Dee) wins a lottery and decides to live it up in a luxurious New York hotel, where she clashes with a bellboy (Francis Lederer) who is more than he appears to be.

Cast

• Francis Lederer as Sandro
• Frances Dee as Mirabel Miller
• Benita Hume
  Benita Hume
  Benita Hume was an English film actress. She appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1955.She was married to actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958; they were the parents of a daughter, Juliet...
  
   as Miss Cordelia Channing
• Alan Mowbray
  Alan Mowbray
  Alan Mowbray MM, , was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery...
  
   as Lord Clewe
• Lennox Pawle as Consul-General Semanek
• Adele St. Mauer as Lucille (as Adele St. Maur)
• Akim Tamiroff
  Akim Tamiroff
  Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.Tamiroff was born in Tiflis, Russian Empire , of Armenian ethnicity. He trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the U.S. in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors...
  
   as Spellek
• Luis Alberni as Ernest
• Lionel Stander
  Lionel Stander
  Lionel Jay Stander was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television.-Early life and career:Lionel Stander was born in The Bronx, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants, the first of three children...
  
   as Gettel
• Ferdinand Gottschalk
  Ferdinand Gottschalk
  Ferdinand Gottschalk was an English film actor. He appeared in 76 films between 1917 and 1938. He was born and died in London, England....
  
   as Mr. Squires
• Richard Carle
  Richard Carle
  Richard Carle was an American film actor. He appeared in 132 films between 1915 and 1941.He was born as Charles Nicholas Carleto in Somerville, Massachusetts...
  
   as Mr. Spitzer
• Lenita Lane as Peg DeForrest
• Barbara Fritchie as Joan Dennison
• Paul Hurst
  Paul Hurst (actor)
  Paul Causey Hurst was an American film actor and director.-Career:Born in Traver, California, and raised on a ranch, he appeared in hundreds of films during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. However, he got his start painting scenery as part of the backstage crew during the silent movie era...
  
   as Bell Captain
• Robert Greig
  Robert Greig (actor)
  Robert Greig was an Australian-American actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1930 and 1949, usually as the dutiful butler.-Career:...
  
  as Adolph