Fast and Loose (1930 film)

David Gray and Avery Hopwood's play, The Best People, opened on Broadway on August 19, 1924, and ran for 142 performances.^[5] It was later revived in 1933 when it ran for a more modest 67 performances.^[6] Hopwood was a prolific and successful playwright, many of whose plays were adapted into films – his 1919 play The Gold Diggers provided the template for the Warner Bros. series of movie musicals.

The Best People was made into a silent film in 1925, The Best People,^{[citation needed]} before Paramount had it refashioned into a vehicle for Miriam Hopkins, an established Broadway star^[7] who had just signed with the studio after making the short subject The Home Girl for them in 1928.^{[citation needed]} Fast and Loose was her second film appearance.

Fast and Loose was also Preston Sturges' second Hollywood assignment, after The Big Pond (and its French-language version La grande mare). Carole Lombard, on the other hand, had appeared in over 40 films by the time Fast and Loose was released, all as "Carol Lombard."^{[citation needed]}

• Fast and Loose at IMDb
• Fast and Loose at the TCM Movie Database (archived version)
• Fast and Loose at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• ​The Best People​ (play) at the Internet Broadway Database
• lobby poster