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After Office Hours
After Office Hours
	Lobby card
Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard
Written by	Laurence Stallings; Dale Van Every
Screenplay by	Herman J. Mankiewicz
Produced by	Robert Z. Leonard; Bernard H. Hyman
Starring	Clark Gable; Constance Bennett
Cinematography	Charles Rosher
Edited by	Tom Held
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	February 22, 1935;
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$366,000
Box office	$1.2 million

After Office Hours is a 1935 crime drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett. The screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz.

Plot edit

Jim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all the while trying to solve a murder mystery, involving her childhood friend Tommy Bannister. Once Jim discovers that Sharon is involved with all the participants in the murder, she becomes even more attractive to him.

Cast edit

Constance Bennett as Sharon Norwood
Clark Gable as James "Jim" Branch
Stuart Erwin as Hank Parr
Billie Burke as Mrs. Norwood
Harvey Stephens as Tommy Bannister
Katharine Alexander as Julia Patterson
Hale Hamilton as Henry King Patterson
Henry Travers as Cap
Henry Armetta as Italian diner owner
Charles Richman as Jordan
Herbert Bunston as Barlow, Norwood's butler
Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Murchison
William Demarest as police detective
Rita La Roy as Branch's Society Girlfriend

Box office edit

According to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000.^[2]

References edit

^ After Office Hours at the American Film Institute Catalog
^ ^a ^b ^c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.