{"id":18901,"date":"2026-08-15T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18901"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:27:19","slug":"laughter-1930-harry-darrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18901","title":{"rendered":"Laughter (1930, Harry d&#8217;Arrast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starving artist Glenn Anders (<em>Lady From Shanghai<\/em>) loves Nancy Carroll (<em>Broken Lullaby<\/em>), but Nancy loves Parisian Fredric March (romantic lead(s) of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8892\">I Married a Witch<\/a><\/em>), but she is married to older Frank &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; Morgan.  She&#8217;s right to prefer March &#8211; he&#8217;s a charming nut, playing piano duets with the servants and romping around wearing bear rugs.  Among all this romantic intrigue, the husband makes eight million dollars on a business deal and nobody in the family can be bothered to care.  There&#8217;s a cute stepdaughter, and the artist tries smooching her, but ultimately decides to shoot himself since he can&#8217;t have Nancy, an act which shocks her into leaving her rich husband for March.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/laughter1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Bonding with stepmom:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/laughter2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Moments before they&#8217;re arrested for breaking into this house:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/laughter3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starving artist Glenn Anders (Lady From Shanghai) loves Nancy Carroll (Broken Lullaby), but Nancy loves Parisian Fredric March (romantic lead(s) of I Married a Witch), but she is married to older Frank &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; Morgan. She&#8217;s right to prefer March &#8211; he&#8217;s a charming nut, playing piano duets with the servants and romping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,1914,3524],"class_list":["post-18901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-great-depression","tag-harry-darrast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18928,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions\/18928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}