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A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Agostino Borgato
- Fortune Teller
- (uncredited)
Lita Chevret
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
- American Radio Announcer
- (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
- Woman with Organ Grinder
- (uncredited)
Margaret Lindsay
- Autograph Seeker at Party
- (uncredited)
Gwendolyn Logan
- Bradford
- (uncredited)
Miki Morita
- Japanese Radio Announcer
- (uncredited)
Paul Ralli
- Tango Dancer
- (uncredited)
Zena Savine
- Elaine's Maid
- (uncredited)
Pat Somerset
- The Second Bobby
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen this movie was made, Colin Clive was 33; Billie Burke, who played his wife, was 49; and Helen Chandler, who played their daughter, was 27.
- GoofsAt the end of the film, the newspaper headline telling of Cynthia's death is accompanied by text that begins to recount the news, but changes into nonsensical wording after a few lines.
- Quotes
Lady Cynthia Darrington: I wouldn't have loved you if you'd been a usual man. And you wouldn't have loved me if I'd been a woman who didn't take this kind of thing seriously.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story: A Woman's Lot (1987)
- SoundtracksNearer My God To Thee
(uncredited)
Music by Lowell Mason (1856)
Lyrics by Sarah F. Adams
Played by an unidentified organ grinder
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A little gem in Hepburn's career
It's ironical this film to be titled as the main male character, above all when this raises among film classics for its accurate depiction, not only of the main female one, but also of the female secondary roles. It is probably due to the fact that it is directed by a woman, but the talent of Arzner goes beyond through accurate cinematography and a sense for lyrical melodrama far from the soapy tone of the majority of its contemporaneous. Katharine Hepburn is exulting as the brave woman always a step further its era, here in love for the first time with a married man. Particularly moving is the last sequence, with Hepburn trying to achieve the altitude record with her airplane as she confronts the most relevant facts of her story. A little gem to be discovered.
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- jrgirones
- May 23, 2002
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- The Great Desire
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- Budget
- $284,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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