Reckless (1935)
Actors:
Ted Healy (actor),
John Gallaudet (actor),
Wade Boteler (actor),
Leon Ames (actor),
Hooper Atchley (actor),
James Conaty (actor),
Nick Copeland (actor),
John Davidson (actor),
Don Brodie (actor),
Dick Elliott (actor),
Paul Ellis (actor),
James Ellison (actor),
Paul Fix (actor),
Sam Flint (actor),
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins (actor),
Plot: Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.
Keywords: accident, alcoholism, amusement-park, arranged-marriage, behind-the-scenes, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, carousel, child-custody, chorus-girl, class-differences
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Musical,
Taglines: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Mammoth Musical Melodrama
Quotes:
Mona Leslie: [Spoken introduction to the song, Reckless] What'll you ever be? What'll you ever do? How will you ever know if you don't take a chance?::Chorus: You have got to gamble with fate.::Mona Leslie: [singing] I wanna live, love, learn a lot. I'll light my candle and I'll burn a lot.::Chorus: You'll have some bad shots, hard knocks!::Mona Leslie: I'm on my own if I bruise.::Chorus: And there'll be smiles here, shouts here!::Mona Leslie: And I can take it on the chin if I lose, because I'm reckless!::Chorus: She's simply reckless!::Mona Leslie: Reckless!::Chorus: She's simply reckless!::Mona Leslie: I'm gonna go places and look life in the face!