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Paddy the Next Best Thing: Directed by Harry Lachman. With Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Connolly, Harvey Stephens. In Ireland, Major Adair's older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father's debts, even though she really loves Jack Breen.
- (50)
- Comedy
- Harry Lachman
- 1933-09-01
Paddy the Next Best Thing is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter and Walter Connolly. The screenplay was written by Edwin J. Burke, based on the 1912 novel Paddy the Next Best Thing by Gertrude Page and its later stage adaptation, which had previously been ...
Novel. Edwin J. Burke. Screenplay. In Ireland, Major Adair’s older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father’s debts, even though she really loves Jack Breen.
Gertrude Page’s novel Paddy the Next Best Thing (1908) inspired theatrical and film adaptations, including one of Fox’s biggest hits of 1933
At age 26, Janet Gaynor was still playing "gamin" roles in such musical trifles as Paddy, the Next Best Thing. Gaynor stars as a spirited Irish lass whose older sister (Margaret Lindsay) is about to marry a wealthy gent (Warner Baxter).
- Harry Lachman
Based on the novel Paddy-the-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page (London, 1916).
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