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A Sailor's Sweetheart

A Sailor's Sweetheart

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Overview

Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of con man Mark Krisel, is just around the corner.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Harvey Gates, George Godfrey
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Top Cast

Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda

Cynthia Botts

Clyde Cook

Clyde Cook

Sandy McTavish

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Claudette Ralston

William Demarest

William Demarest

Detective

John Miljan

John Miljan

Mark Krisel

Dorothea Wolbert

Dorothea Wolbert

Lena Svenson

Tom Ricketts

Tom Ricketts

Professor Meekham

Themes & Keywords

boarding schoolmarriageinheritancesailorspinstercomic drunkoverboardrumrunnerhandcuffed togetherbigamist

About A Sailor's Sweetheart

A Sailor's Sweetheart is a adventure, comedy, romance film released in 1927 exploring themes of boarding school, marriage, inheritance, sailor, spinster, comic drunk. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, it stars Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy. Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of con man Mark Krisel, is just around the corner.

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