The Big Pond

  • Romance
  • Comedy
5/3/1930
72

Storyline

A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Once it gets going, this is quite a fun vehicle for Maurice Chevalier as he falls in love with a chewing gum heiress. Pierre accompanies Barbara (Claudette Colbert) to her American home where her father (George Barbier) has his name on just about everything. He is quite a shrewd old gent, so rather than row with his loved-up daughter he offers her beau a job. Now we are not talking about an highly paid office job with an expense account, no. We are talking about a factory floor opportunity where his foreman has been charged with making his life as awkward as possible. Meantime, Ronnie (Frank Lyon) has always had designs on Barbara and so misses no opportunity to malign his European competitor. When one of dads grand designs to get Pierre fi...

    January 9, 2026

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