Red Dust

Red Dust (1932)

Timing: 1:23 (83 min)

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Release date

1932-10-22

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genre

Romance, Drama

Budget

$408 000

Revenue

$1 223 000

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Director

Victor Fleming

Actors

Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall, Forrester Harvey, Willie Fung
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Scenario

Producer

Irving Thalberg, Victor Fleming, Hunt Stromberg

Operator

Arthur Edeson

Composer

Artist

Audition

Ben Piazza

Editing

Blanche Sewell
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• During the filming of the movie, Jean Harlow's husband, screenwriter and director Paul Bern, committed suicide.
• When audience polls showed that the American public sympathized with the recently widowed Jean Harlow (1911-1937), whose husband Paul Bern (1889-1932) had committed suicide just three months after their wedding, the head and one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957), ordered director Victor Fleming (1889-1949) not to delay filming and to fully capitalize on the fact that public sympathy for the actress remained strong. Today, this is called "changing one’s tune," because just recently Mayer had suggested replacing Harlow with another actress, fearing that her husband’s suicide under suspicious circumstances could negatively affect box office receipts.