Love Before Breakfast es una película de comedia romántica estadounidense de 1936 protagonizada por Carole Lombard , Preston Foster y Cesar Romero , basada enel cuento de Faith Baldwin Spinster Dinner , publicado en International-Cosmopolitan en julio de 1934. La película fue dirigida por Walter Lang a partir de un guión de Herbert Fields con la ayuda de numerosos escritores contratados, incluido Preston Sturges .
Kay Colby ( Carole Lombard ) es una belleza de Park Avenue con dos pretendientes: su prometido Bill Wadsworth ( Cesar Romero ) y Scott Miller ( Preston Foster ). Para despejar su camino, Scott compra la compañía petrolera para la que trabaja Bill y lo envía a Japón. Luego envía a su propia novia, la condesa Campanella ( Betty Lawford ), a Honolulu para quitarla de en medio también. Kay está molesta por la partida de Bill y molesta porque Scott insiste en su demanda, pero Scott cuenta con la ayuda y aprobación de la madre de Kay ( Janet Beecher ) en sus esfuerzos, y el consejo de su amigo y socio comercial, Brinkerhoff ( Richard Carle ). [1]
Love Before Breakfast had the working title of Spinster Dinner, the title of the Faith Baldwin short story it was based on. Several months before filming began, it was reported that Melvyn Douglas would take the male lead.
Carole Lombard was under contract to Paramount, who lent her to Universal for this film, in exchange for Margaret Sullavan going there to do So Red The Rose. Lombard also brought technical staff from Paramount, including photographer Ted Tetzlaff and costume designer Travis Banton.[2]
Lombard, who had the contractual right to reject scripts, did not like the ones she was presented for Love Before Breakfast, including those written by Preston Sturges, Claude Binyon, Samuel Hoffenstein, Harry Clork, Doris Malloy and William Conselman. Eventually, she accepted Herbert Fields's script.[2]
Love Before Breakfast was in production from 16 December 1935 to 27 January 1936,[3] and was released on 9 March 1936.