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Their Big Moment - Wikipedia

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Their Big Moment

Directed by	James Cruze Charles Kerr (assistant)
Screenplay by	Arthur Caesar Marion Dix
Based on	Afterwards 1933 play by Walter C. Hackett
Produced by	Pandro S. Berman Cliff Reid
Starring	ZaSu Pitts Slim Summerville Kay Johnson
Cinematography	Harold Wenstrom
Edited by	William Hamilton
Music by	Max Steiner
Production company	RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by	RKO Pictures
Release date	August 17, 1934 (1934-08-17) (US)^[1]
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Their Big Moment is a 1934 American mystery film directed by James Cruze, from a screenplay by Arthur Caesar and Marion Dix. The film starred ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville. It is based on the 1933 West End play Afterwards by Walter C. Hackett which had run for more than two hundred performances in London. While most of the Pitts-Summerville teamings were comedies, this was a serious drama in which they merely played comic-relief characters; their star billing was thus misleading.

Plot

Tillie Whim, a timid stage assistant to The Great La Salle in a small mentalist act playing a Vaudeville theater, is harassed, bullied, and undermined by the act's co-star, primadonna Lottie. When Lottie finally attempts to fire Tillie after a performance, La Salle fires Lottie instead.

The remaining troupe are then hired backstage by an audience member to debunk another mentalist, whom he accuses of exploiting his friend, a grief-stricken woman who has recently lost her husband in a plane crash. Tillie is promoted to Lottie's old role as medium, but unexpectedly deviates from the script when the spirit of the departed tells her that the plane crash was murder.

Cast

Zasu Pitts as Tillie Whim
Slim Summerville as Bill Ambrose
William Gaxton as The Great La Salle
Bruce Cabot as Lane Franklyn
Kay Johnson as Eve Farrington
Julie Haydon as Fay Harley
Ralph Morgan as Dr. Portman
Huntley Gordon as John Farrington
Tamara Geva as Lottie

References

^ "Their Big Moment: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2014.

External links

Their Big Moment at IMDb
Their Big Moment at AllMovie
Their Big Moment at the TCM Movie Database
Their Big Moment at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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