Idiot's Delight
The Biggest Thrill They Ever Gave You! Norma and Clark together in the romance of a "ham" song-and-dance man and a "red-headed liar from Omaha."
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1/27/1939Runtime
107 minsOverview
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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A romantic comedy-drama where charm and performance become both escape and survival as war closes in. The film balances song-and-dance lightness with the creeping dread of fascism, trapping its characters, and audience, in a luxurious limbo between normalcy and catastrophe.
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Clark Gable
Harry Van
Norma Shearer
Irene Fellara
Edward Arnold
Achille Weber
Charles Coburn
Dr. Hugo Waldersee
Joseph Schildkraut
Capt. Kirvline
Burgess Meredith
Quillary
Laura Hope Crews
Madame Zuleika
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
'Don' Navadel
Peter Willes
Mr. Jimmy Cherry
Pat Paterson
Mrs. Cherry
William Edmunds
Dumptsy
Fritz Feld
Pittatek
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