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Genevieve Tobin
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The daughter of a stage performer, American actress Genevieve Tobin helped put food on the family table by going to work in the 1919 play Palmy Days. Tobin worked her way up from ingenue to glamorous romantic leading lady, attaining the status of "critic's darling" --meaning that her reviews often commented on her looks and mannerisms, seldom on her talent. This isn't to say that she wasn't talented; indeed, it was Tobin's rendition (with William Gaxton) of Cole Porter's song "You Do Something to Me" that helped make Porter's 1929 production Fifty Million Frenchmen a hit. Squired by many of society's richest and most desirable bachelors, Tobin was the living, walking personification of "Broadway Celebrity" in the eyes of many fans. She entered films with A Lady Surrenders (1930), thereafter specializing in comedy roles (with the notable exception of her role as a bored businessman's wife in The Petrified Forest [1936]). But while she seemed bewitchingly adorable on stage, she came off as a bit arch in films; her interpretation of Perry Mason's secretary Della Street in Case of the Lucky Legs (1935) is undercut by a "stage British" accent that wouldn't convince a grade school kid.
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The daughter of a stage performer, American actress Genevieve Tobin helped put food on the family table by going to work in the 1919 play Palmy Days. Tobin worked her way up from ingenue to glamorous romantic leading lady, attaining the status of "critic's darling" --meaning that her reviews...Read More
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Jim "Buck" Turner (Edward G. Robinson) wins $20,000 on a horse race and quickly loses it. Jim rents a room from Marge Mayhew (Genevieve Tobin) in a boardinghouse over the objections of her mother (Emma Dunn). Marge tells her mother she is going to marry Jim. He works as a hotel night-clerk. Joe (Gordon Westcott) tells John Bright (Sidney Toler) that Jim's tip paid off and gives Jim $60. Bright quarrels with Jim and gets him fired. Jim won't let Marge take a job.
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This time she’s a professional horsewoman, riding for Genevieve Tobin, who’s ... supporting a polo team, but that’s not supposed to be professional. Gene Raymond, of the team, falls hard for Miss Stanwyck to the distress of John Eldridge, who wants her himself. She marries Raymond, is snubbed by his proud but impoverished family. She persuades Raymond to turn his Long Island estate into a training and boarding stable. She gets the money from Fairchild when her grandfather fails here, but lets Raymond believe the money came from her relative. She gets jammed, innocently enough, on Fairchild’s yacht when a tipsy showgirl falls of the rail.
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The daughter of a vaudeville performer, Tobin made her film debut in 1910 in Uncle Tom's Cabin as Eva. She appeared in a few films as child, and formed a double act with her sister Vivian. Their brother, George... had a brief acting career. Following her education in Paris and New York, Tobin concentrated on a stage career in New York. Although she was seen most often in comedies, she also played the role of Cordelia in a Broadway production of King Lear in 1923. Popular with audiences, she was often praised by critics for her appearance and style rather than for her talent, however in 1929 she achieved a significant success in the play Fifty Million Frenchmen.
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Synopsis: Famous author Kenneth Bixby (Warren William) would like to jump-start his romance with ex-sweetheart Julie (Genevieve Tobin). There are... at least two people who'd prefer that Bixby stick to writing and stay away from Julie. One is Julie's husband Harvey Wilson (Hugh Herbert); the other isRead More
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