The Greeks Had a Word for Them
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. Also known as Three Broadway Girls, The Greeks Had a Word for Them inspired four other films which had a similar plot. This version follows a group of three Broadway women who try to nab either rich husbands or sugar daddies, but keep foiling each other. The film was repeatedly censored before and after release due to puritanical views of the time, even with the lax enforcement of the pre-code era. Modern viewers like the actresses but feel overall that it is a good, but not great, movie.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Lowell Sherman
- Starring
- Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, David Manners, Lowell Sherman, Phillips Smalley, Sidney Bracey, Betty Grable
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