She Couldn't Take It (1935)
"Listen sweetheart - you're going to get a lesson in love!"
77 min
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
- Release date
- October 8, 1935
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- George Raft as Joseph 'Spot' Ricardi
- Joan Bennett as Carol Van Dyke
- Walter Connolly as Daniel Van Dyke
- Billie Burke as Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke
- Lloyd Nolan as Tex
- Wallace Ford as 'Fingers' Boston
- James Blakeley as Tony Van Dyke
- Alan Mowbray as Alan Bartlett
- William Tannen as Cesar
- Donald Meek as Uncle Wyndersham
Crew
- Tay Garnett · Director
- Oliver H.P. Garrett · Writer
- Gene Towne · Writer
- C. Graham Baker · Writer
- B.P. Schulberg · Producer
- Leon Shamroy · Cinematographer
- Gene Havlick · Editor