Penthouse
A strange romance in a penthouse- a sky high love-nest! A girl from nowhere bringing drama that screamed from the headlines!
1933 | 88m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | W.S. Van Dyke |
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| Writer: | Arthur Somers Roche, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich |
| Staring: |
| Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 08, 1933 |
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| Director: | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Writer: | Arthur Somers Roche, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich |
| Genres: | Crime, Mystery |
| Keywords | call girl, gangster, investigation, murder, pre-code, kept woman |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 29, 2026 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Warner Baxter | Jackson 'Jack' Durant |
| Myrna Loy | Gertie Waxted |
| Charles Butterworth | Layton |
| Mae Clarke | Mimi Montagne |
| Phillips Holmes | Tom Siddall |
| C. Henry Gordon | Jim Crelliman |
| Martha Sleeper | Sue Leonard |
| Nat Pendleton | Tony Gazotti |
| George E. Stone | Tim Murtoch |
| Robert Emmett O'Connor | Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens |
| Raymond Hatton | Bodyguard |
| Arthur Belasco | Bodyguard |
| William Bailey | Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited) |
| Ed Brady | Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited) |
| Lynton Brent | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Theresa Harris | Lili (uncredited) |
| Edward Hearn | Detective (uncredited) |
| Samuel S. Hinds | Stuyvesant (uncredited) |
| Tom Kennedy | Joe (uncredited) |
| George Magrill | Crelliman's Butler (uncredited) |
| Miriam Marlin | Lottie a Chorine (uncredited) |
| Henry Otho | Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited) |
| Lee Phelps | Detective (uncredited) |
| Frank Rice | Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited) |
| William Stack | Rutherford (uncredited) |
| Carl Stockdale | Levi Levitoff (uncredited) |
| Charles Sullivan | Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited) |
| Harry Tenbrook | Customer at Crelliman's Place (uncredited) |
| Guy Usher | News Editor (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Lucien N. Andriot | Director of Photography |
| Robert Kern | Editor |
| Arthur Somers Roche | Story |
| William Axt | Original Music Composer |
| Alexander Toluboff | Art Direction |
| W.S. Van Dyke | Director |
| Harold Rosson | Director of Photography |
| Adrian | Costume Design |
| Douglas Shearer | Sound Director |
| Albert Hackett | Screenplay |
| Frances Goodrich | Screenplay |
| Edwin B. Willis | Interior Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Hunt Stromberg | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 2 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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