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A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Okay, America!
1932 Directed by Tay Garnett
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Lew Ayres Maureen O'Sullivan Louis Calhern Edward Arnold Walter Catlett Alan Dinehart Henry Armetta Charles Dow Clark Emerson Treacy Marjorie Gateson Frank Sheridan Willard Robertson Rollo Lloyd Margaret Lindsay Gilbert Emery Virginia Howell Berton Churchill Ruth Lyons Frederick Burton Wallis Clark William Robert Daly Frank Darien Neely Edwards James Flavin Tay Garnett Al K. Hall Everett Hoagland Caryl Lincoln Onslow Stevens Show All…
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Okay America! (1932) is a cool crime story of the B variety. Lew Ayres stars as a high-profile columnist who ends up in the middle of his biggest exposé. Becomes a solid moral affair, with it's share of suspense as he comes across a few slick underworld characters. And I felt for poor Maureen O'Sullivan as his secretary, who never got any happiness coming her way. On top of being quite good, this movie is also notable for being B-starlet Margaret Lindsay movie debut and the first talkie popular heavy Edward Arnold ever did!
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Zippy little kidnapping mystery that sees Lew Ayres as not-Walter Winchell playing a vengeful angel and taking on the mob. The movie flags in the last third when the President shows up (!), but quickly picks the pace back up when Ayres gets to wave a gun around (not at the President).
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With the ferocity of Blessed Event and other top-notch Pre-codes, Okay America! blazes out of the gate with more salacious goodness than you can count; right away a cheating couple is seen reacting to Larry Wayne's "Broadway Broadside" column reporting their trysts and the woman in a hilarious moment of denial and un-self-awareness calls him a "dirty liar" even as she and her lover stand together post-coitally in their bathrobes...high-rise construction workers and office secretaries reading the column are seen snickering and eating it all up because clearly there's great populist satisfaction in seeing their boss class get skewered for their hypocrisies.
In the next scene the column poses the question of what happened to the banker's son who forged…