Lady for a Day
Starring: May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Warren William
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Robert Riskin
Producer: Harry Cohn, Stanley Kramer
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture. Capra also directed its 1961 remake, Pocketful of Miracles.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Damon Runyon's short story Madame La Gimp was published in the October 1929 issue of Cosmopolitan.
- Columbia Pictures purchased the screen rights in September 1932, and the studio scheduled the production to begin the following May, although director Frank Capra had misgivings about the project.
- Riskin's version deviated from the original Runyon story primarily in that it linked its central character and a number of plot developments to the millions of Americans who were suffering as a result of the Great Depression.
Filming Locations
- Go ahead." Robert Riskin was assigned to develop the story for the screen and wrote four drafts, submitting the last on May 6, 1933, three days before principal photography began.
Previous Showings
12 Runs • 7 Festivals
12,913 tickets sold
All runs on record (12):
- March 2 - 4, 1990 · 3,045 ticketsw/ Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- April 1 - 5, 1990 · 820 ticketsw/ It's a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You
- January 19 - 20, 1991 · 1,086 ticketsw/ It Happened One Night
- April 25 - 27, 1997 · 2,342 ticketsw/ It Happened One Night
- October 20 - 22, 1999 · 655 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ Gold Diggers of 1933
- October 27 - 28, 2004 · 455 ticketsBrandow/ Flying Down to Rio
- November 3 - 6, 2007 · 946 ticketsFall 2007 The Films of Frank Capra, plus other favoritesw/ Ladies of Leisure
- April 28 - 30, 2010 · 601 ticketsSpring 2010w/ Flying Down to Rio
- August 31 - September 3, 2013 · 1,078 ticketsSummer 2013w/ Employees' Entrance
- July 23 - 26, 2016 · 975 ticketsSummer 2016w/ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- January 16, 2025The Films of Frank Capraw/ The Miracle Woman
- January 18 - 19, 2025 · 910 ticketsThe Films of Frank Capraw/ That Certain Thing