Spendthrift (1936)
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Don't listen to the negative reviews
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
There were a glut of films in the Depression Thirties about rich heirs and dizzy heiresses. So if Henry Fonda who said he only vaguely remembered this film, he could be forgiven.Fonda gets two co-stars here Pat Patterson the daughter of horse trainer J.M. Kerrigan replete with Irish brogue who trains for Fonda and Mary Brian a golddigging southern belle with rapacious father Spencer Charters.Brian thinks Fonda a well known man about town playboy has more than he does and sets a trap for him. But Fonda has no idea about a dollar's value. He's plowed through his inheritance to the chagrin of his uncle George Barbier. He can't help it because Fonda is as the title says, a Spendthrift. Of course in the end Fonda both ends up with the right girl and finds a job suitable to his lack of ability at really anything other than being a playboy.
Having made his screen debut at 30, and previously acted in the theatre with Omaha Community Players and Cape Cod University Players, Fonda continued to pad out his c.v. with this bland film which had no sparkle or colour to it.