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As a guest of the eccentric globe-trotting Marie Dressler -- Shearer mixes with an odd assortment of lovelorn types, including her long-lost husband. They give a sense of reality as something that happens among people in regular life, but that one seldom sees in scripted movies. When Bob’s mistress Helen (Helene Millard) shows up at the couple’s house (!) one morning Kitty has had enough and divorces Bob.

She takes the children and moves to Paris where she gets nice clothes and starts moving in high class social…

“This is more like a French farce every minute.”

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Opens with Norma Shearer as a no makeup mommy shushing her little rascals and doting on her hard-working husband.

However, fortunately, in LET US BE GAY, there are plenty of cute and funny moments (particularly towards the end when Marie Dressler shows her true colors). Townley, dazzled by Kitty’s renewed allure, becomes a point of tension as Bob arrives and discovers Townley hiding in the bathroom to avoid confrontation. It was made worse by his pairing with the effervescent Norma Shearer.

Unbeknownst to him, she is the same ex-wife he'd neglected, now trans... The plot is unique and good, and it has a different but nice ending for a Hollywood production even then. As a result his ex-wife starts slutting it up and seducing men for fun/maybe money? How to win back a wandering husband!-The year's finest talkie!

A housewife divorces her self-centered husband.

While not a great film, it certainly is a good one and more than just another time-passer. Bob pleads for another chance, and Kitty, with tears in her eyes, reveals that she still loves him and asks him to take her back. Mrs. Brown is leaving on the 11 o'clock train. For more witty and other dialog, see the Quotes section under this IMDb Web page of the movie.

But you are wonderful, aren't you?" Towney Townley, "Yes, yes, we, we are, aren't we?" Kitty Brown, "I thought you said he was 'umble." Mrs. Bouccicault, "Hmm, hmm. I've been avoiding you in Paris. The confined speaking spaces were due to the stationary microphones. But the screenplay insists that she's the most seductive creature ever to walk the earth, so we have to play along when she gets invited for a weekend at the same home where her ex…

Release Date - Aug 9, 1930  |   Run Time - 79 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |   MPAA Rating - TV-G

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Let Us Be Gay is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film produced and distributed by MGM.

It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and stars Norma Shearer. Her strange, yet appealing posturing and "affair with the camera" are evident throughout -- and she hits every emotional note, genuinely and on target. Oddly, during this time, La Rocque did not see Shearer or his two kids as Shearer took them to Paris.

Marie Dressler is a rich society lady and she has invited a new and improved Norma to come to her house for the weekend--ostensibly to help Marie break up a budding romance between her daughter and La Rocque!

It might be as well for you to assist her." Perkins, "That's just where I'm going, and without any suggestions from you."

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Slight but Amusing

I happened to channel surf to Turner Classic Movies just as this one was beginning last night, and once I got past the unlikely opening sequence I couldn't possibly turn away from the unlikely rest of it.

She wears frumpy, self-made clothing and is sweet natured and jolly so naturally hubby Bob (Rod La Rocque) is stepping out with a flappish woman dripping in fur and jewels.

let us be gay 1930



The film has much humor - biting in places. Disgust and anger propel Bob away, and soon Mrs. Bouccicault comes to tell Kitty that Bob has just become engaged to Diane, a revelation that stings with irony for anyone who remembers the compromise and conflict of the past. I love Norma.