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Reaching for the Moon

(1930)

December 29, 1930• 1h 13m
54%
TMDB Score

Overview

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.

Edmund Goulding

Director

Top Billed Cast

DF

Douglas Fairbanks

Larry Day

BD

Bebe Daniels

Vivien Benton

EEH

Edward Everett Horton

Roger, the Valet

CA

Claud Allister

Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford

JM

Jack Mulhall

Jimmy Carrington

WW

Walter Walker

James Benton

JM

June MacCloy

Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings

HJE

Helen Jerome Eddy

Larry's Secretary

BC

Bing Crosby

Bing

WHO

William H. O'Brien

Servant Telling Larry London is Calling (uncredited)