The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo is a 1935 American romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

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 made by 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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. It was directed by Stephen Roberts

Stephen Roberts (director)

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, and starred Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...

, Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett

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, and Colin Clive

Colin Clive

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. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson

Nunnally Johnson

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 and Howard Smith

Howard Smith

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, based on play by Ilya Surguchev and Frederick Albert Swan. The film was inspired by the song of the same name

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (song)

"The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" is a popular British music hall song of the 19th century, written in 1892 by Fred Gilbert. Gilbert confirmed that his inspiration was the gambler and confidence trickster Charles Wells, who won over a million francs at the Monte Carlo casino, using the...

, popularised by Charles Coborn

Charles Coborn

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.

Plot

After World War I, in Monte Carlo a girl lures back the Russian one-time aristocrat who broke the bank, and makes him poor; however, she falls in love with him and follows him.

Cast

• Ronald Colman as Paul Gaillard
• Joan Bennett as Helen Berkeley
• Colin Clive as Bertrand Berkeley
• Nigel Bruce
  Nigel Bruce
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   as Ivan
• Frank Reicher
  Frank Reicher
  Frank Reicher , was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer.-Early life:Frank Reicher was born in Munich, Germany, the son of actor Emanuel Reicher and Hedwig Kindermann, a popular German prima donna who was a daughter of the famous baritone August Kindermann...
  
   as 2nd Assistant Director
• Lionel Pape as 3rd Assistant Director
• Ferdinand Gottschalk
  Ferdinand Gottschalk
  Ferdinand Gottschalk was an English film actor. He appeared in 76 films between 1917 and 1938. He was born and died in London, England....
  
   as Office Man
• Charles Fallon as Croupier
• Leonid Snegoff as Nick
• Montagu Love
  Montagu Love
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   as Director

See also

• Charles Wells
  Charles Wells (gambler)
  Charles Deville Wells , gambler and confidence trickster, is one of the men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, made famous by the song...
  
  , the inspiration for the song "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
  The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (song)
  "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" is a popular British music hall song of the 19th century, written in 1892 by Fred Gilbert. Gilbert confirmed that his inspiration was the gambler and confidence trickster Charles Wells, who won over a million francs at the Monte Carlo casino, using the...
  
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• Joseph Jagger
  Joseph Jagger
  Joseph Hobson Jagger was a British engineer, widely known as The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, though he is not the only person to have done so. His name is sometimes reported as Jaggers, but the International Genealogical Index indicates that Jagger is more likely...
  
  , another winner sometimes mistaken for the song's inspiration