Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon (1930)

What excitement! What novelty! What modern day splendor. Fairbanks in a three-mile-a-minute comedy-drama.

Comedy Music Romance

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.

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  • Release Date: 1930-12-29
  • Runtime: 1h 13min
  • Director: Edmund Goulding

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    • Trailer

    Cast

    • Douglas Fairbanks

      Larry Day

    • Bebe Daniels

      Vivien Benton

    • Edward Everett Horton

      Roger, the Valet

    • Claud Allister

      Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford

    • Jack Mulhall

      Jimmy Carrington

    • Walter Walker

      James Benton

    • June MacCloy

      Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings

    • Helen Jerome Eddy

      Larry's Secretary

    • Bing Crosby

      Bing

    • William H. O'Brien

      Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)

    • Dennis O'Keefe

      Ship's Party Guest (uncredited)

    • Lloyd Whitlock

      Associate (uncredited)

    • Emmett Corrigan

      Timothy Grovener - Bank President (uncredited)

    • Toshia Mori

      Coat Girl (uncredited)

    • Florence Wix

      Outraged Mother at Ship's Party (uncredited)

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