Gift of Gab is a 1934 black-and-white film released by Universal Pictures. Edmund Lowe stars as a man with the "Gift of Gab"—he can sell anyone anything. The film costars Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Victor Moore, and Gloria Stuart, and features Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. The film's sets were designed by the art director David Garber.
Plot A fast talking grifter and his stooge, after failing in selling a patented ink remover, inadvertently find themselves pushed into the radio broadcasting business. What follows is a series of blackouts behind the scenes of a radio studio.
Cast Edmund Lowe – Phillip "Gift of Gab" Gabney Gloria Stuart – Barbara Kelton Ruth Etting – Ruth Phil Baker – absent-minded doctor Ethel Waters – Ethel Alice White – Margot Alexander Woollcott – cameo appearance Victor Moore – Colonel Trivers Hugh O'Connell – Patsy Helen Vinson – nurse Gene Austin – radio artist Thomas Hanlon – radio announcer Henry Armetta – janitor Sterling Holloway - Sound Effects Man Andy Devine – McDougal, the waiter Wini Shaw – cabaret singer Boris Karloff – cameo appearance Béla Lugosi – cameo appearance Roger Pryor as himself
Production Ruth Etting sings "Talking to Myself" and "Tomorrow, Who Cares?"
Originally the Three Stooges were signed to appear in the film, but they had just signed with Columbia Pictures for Woman Haters, the first of their short subjects, so three look-alike actors replaced them in Gift of Gab.
See also List of American films of 1934
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