CinemaOSMovie · 1930 · 1h 13m · NR

Reaching for the Moon

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

58%(14)IMDbComedyMusicRomance

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.

Directed byEdmund Goulding

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 13m
Language
EN
Released
December 29, 1930
Studios
United Artists

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
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)

Creative team
Directed by
Edmund Goulding
Edmund Goulding
Written by
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
Edmund Goulding
Edmund Goulding
Produced by
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks

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