---
title: 'Hard to Get (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ray Enright'
released: '1938-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 82
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-to-get-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030214/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hard to Get (1938)

1938 · 82 min · Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Hard to Get is a 1938 American romantic comedy film starring Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilland. Written by Jerry Wald, Maurice Leo, and Richard Macaulay, and directed by Ray Enright, the film is about a spoiled young heiress who tries to charge some gasoline at an auto court and is forced by the attendant to work out her bill by making beds and cleaning rooms. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and then sends him to her father to get financing for his plan to develop a string of auto courts across the country, knowing he will only be wasting his time.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ray Enright](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-enright)
- **Screenplay:** [Jerry Wald](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-wald)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Heinz Eric Roemheld](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-eric-roemheld)
- **Producer:** [Jack Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-warner), [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Charles Rosher](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-rosher)
- **Editor:** [Thomas Richards](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-richards)

## Cast

- [Thurston Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/thurston-hall)
- [Penny Singleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/penny-singleton)
- [Allen Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-jenkins)
- [Bonita Granville](https://cinepixo.com/people/bonita-granville)
- [Dick Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-powell)
- [Charles Winninger](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-winninger)
- [Melville Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/melville-cooper)
- [Jack Mower](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mower)
- [Granville Bates](https://cinepixo.com/people/granville-bates)
- [Grady Sutton](https://cinepixo.com/people/grady-sutton)
- [Isabel Jeans](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabel-jeans)
- [Olivia de Havilland](https://cinepixo.com/people/olivia-de-havilland)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-to-get-1938
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