Ladies of Leisure (1930)

Ladies of Leisure: Directed by Frank Capra. With Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman, Marie Prevost. An upper-crust artist hires a ‘party girl’ as a model; romance follows.

“The creative team of Barbara Stanwyck and director Frank Capra makes its debut in Ladies Of Leisure which casts a young Barbara as a party girl who falls big time for artist Ralph Graves after he hires her to model for him. They did a total of five films together, the last one Meet John Doe is considered a classic.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLadies Of Leisure is far from that, but you can see why it helped make Barbara Stanwyck the star she became. Their are hints of her later Oscar nominated part in Stella Dallas in her performance here.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRalph Graves isnu0026#39;t just any artist, heu0026#39;s the son of railroad tycoon George Fawcett and Nance Ou0026#39;Neil, but business just doesnu0026#39;t interest him which displeases dad. Fawcett wants him to forget this art kick and join the family firm. But thatu0026#39;s nothing compared to how he and Ou0026#39;Neil feel about their son when he brings Stanwyck home after heu0026#39;s fallen for her.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe production values arenu0026#39;t the greatest, remember this is Columbia Pictures while it was still a poverty row studio like Monogram. Still Capra and Stanwyck show traces of the movie legends they became.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNothing terribly special about Ladies Of Leisure other than these two people coming together for the first time.”