After Office Hours is a 1935 crime drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett. The screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz.

Plot

Jim Branch (Clark Gable), a newspaper editor, falls for wealthy socialite Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett), after having fired her as a reporter, all while trying to solve a murder mystery.

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Cast

Constance Bennett as Sharon Norwood

Clark Gable as James "Jim" Branch

Stuart Erwin as Hank Parr

Billie Burke as Mrs. Norwood

Harvey Stephens as Tommy Bannister

Katharine Alexander as Julia Patterson

Hale Hamilton as Henry King Patterson

Henry Travers as Cap

Henry Armetta as Italian diner owner

Charles Richman as Jordan

Herbert Bunston as Barlow, Norwood's butler

Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Murchison

William Demarest as police detective

Rita La Roy as Branch's Society Girlfriend

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $759,000 in the US and Canada and $522,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $492,000.

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References

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1935 films

1935 crime drama films

American black-and-white films

American crime drama films

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films

Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Films about journalists

Films with screenplays by Herman J. Mankiewicz

1930s English-language films

1930s American films

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