A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Lita Chevret
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Joyce Compton
- Lillie
- (uncredited)
Julie Haydon
- Bridesmaid
- (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaTheatrical movie debut of Bonita Granville (Little Olivia Allen (age 10)).
- GoofsNick's telegram congratulating Olivia and Harry on their marriage is dated May 10 1928. Later scenes are supposed to take place six years later, despite the film having been released in 1932.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Complete Citizen Kane (1991)
- SoundtracksThe Wedding March
(uncredited)
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Played by Laurence Olivier on the piano
Featured review
yak yak snooze, but with Harding and Olivier
No one can deny that Ann Harding was something to look at, and that is about all this film has to offer. Her co-star is a very young mustachioed Laurence Olivier working very hard to make something of an unconvincingly written character -specifically, a high-strung novelist who resents churning out hack material for quick money to pay the bills while living in a small apartment with his wife (Harding) and a baby daughter. Eventually he can take no more, divorces his wife and goes off to write what he pleases in peace, leaving his wife to marry a long-time admirer (Irving Pichel) who provides her with money and status even though she is not in love with him. Years later the estranged couple meets again in Lucerne. By now he is a successful and famous novelist and impulsively decides to wrest back the woman he had deserted. Throughout the proceedings they bicker and make up with tiring frequency. The movie is mostly talk in the Noel Coward style but without the Coward sparkle. The fights and reconciliations, including the reuniting of a divorced couple at a classy resort, are very reminiscent of Coward's "Private Lives" which had been filmed with disastrous results the year before. As in "Lives," the couple even plays and sings a song from time to time, in this case "What'll I Do?" In short, this is good if you like watching Harding, a great screen beauty, and examining the meticulous craftsmanship of Olivier. Otherwise it's a leaden and witless talkathon.
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- mukava991
- Jun 17, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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