Reaching for the Moon (1930)
What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.
91 min
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.
- Release date
- December 29, 1930
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Douglas Fairbanks as Larry Day
- Bebe Daniels as Vivien Benton
- Edward Everett Horton as Roger - The Valet
- Claud Allister as Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
- Jack Mulhall as Jimmy Carrington
- Walter Walker as James Benton
- June MacCloy as Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings
- Helen Jerome Eddy as Larry's Secretary
- Bing Crosby as Bing
- William Begg as Ship's Party Guest
Crew
- Edmund Goulding · Director
- Irving Berlin · Writer
- Edmund Goulding · Writer
- Elsie Janis · Writer
- Ray June · Cinematographer
- Robert H. Planck · Cinematographer
- Hal C. Kern · Editor
- Lloyd Nosler · Editor