Up Pops the Devil (1931)
Genre : Comedy
Runtime : 1H 14M
Director : A. Edward Sutherland
Writer : Eve Unsell
Synopsis
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
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