Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
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82% of users liked it
(322 ratings)
After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora Goes Wild. She plays a prim small-town schoolteacher, raised in an oppressive environment by two maiden aunts. Seeking surreptitious adventure, Dunne writes a steamy… More After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora Goes Wild. She plays a prim small-town schoolteacher, raised in an oppressive environment by two maiden aunts. Seeking surreptitious adventure, Dunne writes a steamy romance novel in her spare time--which becomes a scandalous best-seller. Heading to the big city to meet her publisher, Irene has a fling with the artist (Melvyn Douglas) who has designed the dust jacket for her book. Though on surface a Manhattan sophisticate, Douglas is just as trapped as Dunne had been in her small town; he's saddled with a nasty wife and insufferable parents. Both Douglas and Dunne free themselves of those who'd hold them down, and find happiness together. To round out the happy ending, Dunne's small town, which had ostracized her for writing her "hot" novel, welcomes her back with a brass band when the book puts the town on the map. If Theodora Goes Wild doesn't seem quite as funny now as it did in 1936, it is only because most of its satirical targets (notably the shocked spinster aunts) have ceased to exist. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Richard Boleslawski
- Written By
- Sidney Buchman
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 12, 1936 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Theodora goes silly rather than wild in this outdated look at how they made comedies back then.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Great screwball comedy about the transformation of a plain and repressed girl (splendidly played by Irene Dunne) into an eccentric and loving woman.
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Cast
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Irene Dunne
as Theodora Lynn
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Melvyn Douglas
as Michael Grant
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Thomas Mitchell
as Jed Waterbury
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Spring Byington
as Rebecca Perry
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Thurston Hall
as Arthur Stevenson
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Elizabeth Risdon
as Aunt Mary
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Rosalind Keith
as Adelaide Perry
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Margaret McWade
as Aunt Elsie
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Nana Bryant
as Ethel Stevenson
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Henry Kolker
as Jonathan Grant
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Leona Maricle
as Agnes Grant
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Robert Greig
as Uncle John
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Frederick Burton
as Gov. Wyatt
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Paul Barrett
as Adelaide's Husband
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William Benedict
as Henry
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Sven Hugo Borg
as Bartender
- Don Brodie
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Beatrice Curtis
as Reporter
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Sarah Edwards
as Mrs. Moffat
- Eddie Fetherstone
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Mary Forbes
as Mrs. Wyatt
- Sherry Hall
- Eddie Hart
- Harry Harvey
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Grace Hayle
as Mrs. Cobb
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Ben Hendricks Jr.
as Taxi Driver
- Jane Keckley
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Mary MacLaren
as Mrs. Wilson
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James T. Mack
as Minister
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Rex Moore
as Newsboy
- Georgia O'Dell
- Lee Phelps
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Frank Sully
as Clarence
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Laura Treadwell
as Mrs. Grant
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Dorothy Vernon
as Woman
- Billy Wayne
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Dennis O'Keefe
as Man
- Georgia Cooper
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Maurice Brierre
as Waiter
- Betty Farrington
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Jack Hatfield
as Photographer
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Corbet Morris
as Artist
- Stella Adams
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Wilfred Hari
as Toki
- Isabelle La Mal
- Ralph Malone
- Jessie Perry
- Harold Goodwin
