High Society Blues is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was written by Howard J. Green from the story by Dana Burnett, and directed by David Butler.
Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).
Plot A new country family comes to live among established wealthy neighbors.
Cast Janet Gaynor as Eleanor Divine Charles Farrell as Eddie Granger William Collier Sr. as Horace Divine Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Divine Joyce Compton as Pearl Granger Lucien Littlefield as Eli Granger Louise Fazenda as Mrs. Granger Brandon Hurst as Jowles
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Janet Gaynor, Hedda Hopper in a scene from the film 1930: Hedda Hopper High Society Blues vintage photo W554 (scene with the main cast)