Grumpy is an American

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

 drama film directed by George Cukor

George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...

 and Cyril Gardner

Cyril Gardner

Cyril Gardner was a French-born actor, film director, editor and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Declassee * Grumpy * The Royal Family of Broadway * Reckless Living...

, and released by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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. The screenplay by Doris Anderson is based on a play by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney. A Spanish-language

Spanish language

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 version entitled Cascarrabias, written by Catalan

Catalan people

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 writer Josep Carner Ribalta (1898–1988) and directed by Gardner, was released by Paramount the same year. The film is a remake of a 1923

Grumpy (1923 film)

Grumpy is a 1923 silent film drama distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1913 Broadway play Grumpy by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney Percyval and starred English actor Cyril Maude. The director of this film is William C. deMille, brother of Cecil, and the star is Theodore Roberts...

 silent film

Silent film

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 of the same title.

Plot

The titular character is a temperamental but lovable retired London

London

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 barrister

Barrister

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 now living in the country with his granddaughter Virginia. Ernest Heron, Virginia's beau, returns from South Africa

South Africa

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 with a valuable diamond, and that night he is attacked and the gem is stolen. The only clue to the perpetrator's identity is a camellia

Camellia

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 Ernest is found clutching in his hand.

Suspicion falls upon Chamberlin Jarvis, an acquaintance of Virginia who was a houseguest at the time, and Grumpy follows him when he returns to the city, where he tries to sell the diamond to Berci. Knowing Jarvis is a suspect, Berci turns him away, and the thief, frightened by a confrontation with Grumpy, eventually returns to the country, returns the jewel, and is arrested.

Production

The film marked George Cukor's debut as a film director

Film director

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.

Exteriors were filmed in Kernville, California

Kernville, California

Kernville is a census-designated place in the southern Sierra Nevadas, in Kern County, California, United States. Kernville is located northeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 2667 feet...

. Interiors were filmed at Paramount's Astoria Studios

Kaufman Astoria Studios

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 in Queens, New York.

Cast

• Cyril Maude
  Cyril Maude
  Cyril Francis Maude was an English actor-manager.-Biography:Maude was born in London and educated at the Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship City of Adelaide to regain his health...
  
   ..... Grumpy Bullivant
• Phillips Holmes
  Phillips Holmes
  Phillips Holmes was an American film actor who appeared in 44 films between 1928 and 1938. His credits included Grumpy, An American Tragedy, Broken Lullaby, Dinner at Eight, and Great Expectations....
  
   ..... Ernest Heron
• Frances Dade
  Frances Dade
  Frances Dade, also known early in her career as Lorelei Lee, was an American film actress of the late 1920s and 1930s....
  
   ..... Virginia Bullivant
• Paul Lukas
  Paul Lukas
  Paul Lukas was an Austrian-Hungarian-born actor.-Biography:Born Pál Lukács in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917...
  
   ..... Berci
• Paul Cavanagh
  Paul Cavanagh
  Paul Cavanagh was an English film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1928 and 1959. He was born in Chislehurst and died in London from a heart attack....
  
  ..... Chamberlin Jarvis

External links

• Cascarrabias at IMDB