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Laughing Sinners
Laughing Sinners is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a cafe entertainer who experiences spiritual redemption. The dialogue by Martin Flavin was based upon the play "Torch Song" by Kenyon Nicholson. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont. "Laughing Sinners" was the second of eight cinematic collaborations between Crawford and Gable.
Plot.
Ivy Stevens (Joan Crawford) is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman (
to scrap his footage and reshoot the part with Gable taking Brown's place. At that point, Brown's distinguished career in mainstream feature films ended and he wound up demoted to cowboy B pictures, with his name changed to "Johnny Mack Brown."
Crawford and Rambeau, who both play chorus girls in "Laughing Sinners, "would go on to play mother and daughter in the film "Torch Song" in 1953. "Torch Song" is the name of the play on which "Laughing Sinners" is