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It Pays to Advertise

5.619311h 3mMovieComedy

To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue…

DirectorFrank Tuttle

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Cast · Directed by Frank Tuttle

NFNorman Foster
Norman Foster
Rodney Martin
CLCarole Lombard
Carole Lombard
Mary Grayson
EPEugene Pallette
Eugene Pallette
Cyrus Martin
RGRichard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Ambrose Peale
LBLouise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Thelma Temple
LLLucien Littlefield
Lucien Littlefield
Adams
JWJudith Wood
Judith Wood
Countess de Beaurien (as Helen Johnson)
MWMorgan Wallace
Morgan Wallace
L.R. McChesney
TKTom Kennedy
Tom Kennedy
Perkins
MM
Marcia Manners
Miss Burke
FJFrank Coghlan Jr.
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Office Boy (as Junior Coghlan)
JH
John Howell
Johnson

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It Pays to Advertise hasn't started streaming in Canada yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around April 8, 1931. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.