A friend gave my wife and I a still from this film and when I saw Myrna Loy with light blonde hair I realized I had not only never seen the film, I had never heard of it. So I started to research it and here's a plot description... "In Skyline, Meighan is cast as James McClellan, a builder specializing in Manhattan skyscrapers. Though fiercely independent, McClellan generously takes on talented young architect John Breen (Hardie Albright) as his partner, nurturing his protégé into a successful career of his own. What McClellan knows, but Breen doesn't, is that the younger man is McClellan's illegitimate son. Before McClellan reveals the truth, there is an unpleasant story twist when Breen falls in love Paula Lambert (Myrna Loy), his father's mistress. Part and parcel of the film's happy ending is Breen's romance with ingenue Kathleen Kearney (Maureen O'Sullivan). Skyline is based on East Side, West Side, a novel by Felix Riesenberg." I hope FOX has a print of this and they show it on TV, at a festival or better yet make it available on DVD.
TRIVIA: Although the screen credits state that the film was based on Felix Riesenberg's novel, it May also have been based on a 1927 play derived from the novel written by Riesenberg and Fay Pulsifer, as the file for the film in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library includes a copy of the play. The working title of the film was East Side West Side. The "dialogue taken from the screen" dated August 20, 1931 in the Produced Scripts Collection contains a different ending than the one in the viewed print; in the first ending, McClellan dies from his injuries, and after Judge Scott dedicates the skyscraper as a monument to McClellan, John tells Kathleen that he could not have stood losing his father if he had not found her. According to a May 1931 pre-production news item in Film Daily, J. M. Kerrigan, William Holden (d. 1932) and Kendall McComas were to have featured parts, but their participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Skyline was the working title of both Delicious and Quick Millions (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.3583) two other Fox releases of 1931.
TRIVIA: Although the screen credits state that the film was based on Felix Riesenberg's novel, it May also have been based on a 1927 play derived from the novel written by Riesenberg and Fay Pulsifer, as the file for the film in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library includes a copy of the play. The working title of the film was East Side West Side. The "dialogue taken from the screen" dated August 20, 1931 in the Produced Scripts Collection contains a different ending than the one in the viewed print; in the first ending, McClellan dies from his injuries, and after Judge Scott dedicates the skyscraper as a monument to McClellan, John tells Kathleen that he could not have stood losing his father if he had not found her. According to a May 1931 pre-production news item in Film Daily, J. M. Kerrigan, William Holden (d. 1932) and Kendall McComas were to have featured parts, but their participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Skyline was the working title of both Delicious and Quick Millions (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.3583) two other Fox releases of 1931.