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Rafter Romance  (1933)


A saleswoman and a night watchman who've never met share an apartment, one by day and one by night, and detest each other, sight unseen.  Unwittingly meeting as strangers in the outside world, they develop a deepening attraction—while their at-home antipathy only intensifies, leading to comic complications on all sides in this valentine to romance on a Depression-era budget.

35mm, b/w, 70 min.  Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.  Director: William Seiter.  Based on the novel Rafter Romance by John Wells.  Screenwriter: H.W. Hanemann, Sam Mintz.  Cinematographer: David Abel.  Editor: James B. Morley.  With: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney, Robert Benchley, Laura Hope Crews.