George Brent in The Rich Are Always With Us got to work with two very important women in his life. Brent was married to star Ruth Chatterton for a bit after this film was released. Also in the cast was Bette Davis who Brent later got involved with and who had him as her male lead in some of her best films.
This one however will never be ranked as one of the best film for any of the trio above. Chatterton plays a Gloria Vanderbilt type heiress who married John Miljan after the end of the Great War. Miljan was a stockbroker and his marriage to Chatterton brought him lots of clients and lots of business. But Miljan has always had a roving eye and now its roved to Adrienne Dore who's a pretty and predatory piece of fluff who wants a lot more than a quick roll in the hay.
That's a situation that does not please Brent who plays a novelist who's always had a thing for Chatterton. That in turn does not please pretty young flapper Bette Davis who has a thing for Brent, something she would have in many films to come.
Davis is so alive and so electric in her presence that she sweeps the film away from the stars when she's on the screen. You wish you would get more of her, but her big break for stardom was two years away with Of Human Bondage.
While so many millions were wondering where the next meal and/or paycheck would be forthcoming in 1932 still these films about the rich and their problems were a box office draw. The Rich Are Always With Us was true escapist entertainment.
With the exception of Davis and Dore all the rest in the cast act like romantic saps. I will say that as to the ending Ruth Chatterton does two things that the forthcoming Code would never permit.
This one however will never be ranked as one of the best film for any of the trio above. Chatterton plays a Gloria Vanderbilt type heiress who married John Miljan after the end of the Great War. Miljan was a stockbroker and his marriage to Chatterton brought him lots of clients and lots of business. But Miljan has always had a roving eye and now its roved to Adrienne Dore who's a pretty and predatory piece of fluff who wants a lot more than a quick roll in the hay.
That's a situation that does not please Brent who plays a novelist who's always had a thing for Chatterton. That in turn does not please pretty young flapper Bette Davis who has a thing for Brent, something she would have in many films to come.
Davis is so alive and so electric in her presence that she sweeps the film away from the stars when she's on the screen. You wish you would get more of her, but her big break for stardom was two years away with Of Human Bondage.
While so many millions were wondering where the next meal and/or paycheck would be forthcoming in 1932 still these films about the rich and their problems were a box office draw. The Rich Are Always With Us was true escapist entertainment.
With the exception of Davis and Dore all the rest in the cast act like romantic saps. I will say that as to the ending Ruth Chatterton does two things that the forthcoming Code would never permit.