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Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle1933

★6.978 minComedy

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Director

Writer

Robert Lord Wilson Mizner Houston Branch

Stars

James Cagney Mary Brian Allen Jenkins

Cast43

James Cagney
as Lefty Merrill
Mary Brian
as Ruth Waters
Allen Jenkins
as radio announcer
Ruth Donnelly
as Lil Waters
Claire Dodd
as Marlene Reeves
Robert McWade
as Charles Reeves
Clay Clement
as Federal Man #1 (uncredited)
Don Brodie
as Sound Man (uncredited)
Berton Churchill
as Col. H.D.X. Wells (uncredited)
Davison Clark
as Federal Man #2 (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
as Dance Judge (uncredited)
J
Jack Crawford
as Ralph Blackman - Band Leader (uncredited)
Mary Doran
as Dance Contestant (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
as Ed - Photographer (uncredited)
Douglass Dumbrille
as District Attorney (uncredited)
Emma Dunn
as Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
June Gittelson
as Fat Girl with Hamburger (uncredited)
Charles Eaton
as Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
as Merrill's Secretary (uncredited)
Gavin Gordon
as John Hayden (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
as Fat Lady with Vanishing Cream (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
as Andy Heaney (uncredited)
Harry Holman
as Colonel's Associate (uncredited)
Tenen Holtz
as Tailor (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
as Grapefruit Acres Executive (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
as Hash-Slinger (uncredited)
Louise Mackintosh
as Mrs. O.H.P. Weston-Parks (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
as Bedford College Dignitary (uncredited)
L
Larry McGrath
as Dance Observer (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
as Joe Goetz (uncredited)
H
Henry Otho
as Dance Worker Owed Three Weeks' Wages (uncredited)
Fred Santley
as Grapefruit Acres Radio Announcer (uncredited)
C
Cliff Saum
as Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
John Sheehan
as Ed 'Mac' McGrath (uncredited)
Stanley Smith
as Vocalist with Ralph Blackman's Band (uncredited)
Harry Strang
as Water Sprayer (uncredited)
William H. Strauss
as Mr. Abe Goldstein (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
as Dance Observer (uncredited)
W
Walter Walker
as Bedford College Representative (uncredited)
Charles Cahill Wilson
as Jailer (uncredited)
J
Jack Wise
as Florida Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A
Allen Wood
as Florida Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Sidney Miller
as Boy on Pier (uncredited)

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