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Reaching for the Moon is a high-energy movie and kind of a screwball adventure into romance. Larry Day as Douglas Fairbanks has so much energy that he makes me tired. LOL
Wall Street wizard Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a “love potion,” work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Reaching for the Moon is a 1930 American pre-Code black and white musical film.
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks as Larry Day
Bebe Daniels as Vivien Benton
Edward Everett Horton as Roger
Claud Allister as Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Jack Mulhall as Jimmy Carrington
Walter Walker as James Benton
June MacCloy as Kitty
Helen Jerome Eddy as Larry’s Secretary
Bing Crosby as Bing
Larry Steers as Flier (uncredited)
Soundtrack
“When the Folks High-Up Do the Mean Low-Down”
Written by Irving Berlin
Sung by Bing Crosby, Bebe Daniels, June MacCloy, and chorus.
“Reaching for the Moon”
Written by Irving Berlin
(heard instrumentally over the opening credits, as background music for a love scene, then briefly at the end)
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