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That Certain Woman is a 1937 American drama film written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A drama film is a Film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes Edmund Goulding ( March 20, 1891 - December 24, 1959) was a film director It is a remake of Goulding's 1929 film The Tresspasser, Gloria Swanson's first sound film. For the book by D H Lawrence see The Trespasser (novel. The Trespasser ( 1929) is a film which tells the story of a "kept Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983 was an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American Hollywood A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a Silent film.

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Synopsis

The soap opera-like plot of the Warner Bros. release focuses on Mary Donnell, a naive young woman married to a bootlegger who is killed during the St. Valentine's Day massacre. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Rum-running is the business of Smuggling or transporting of Alcoholic beverages illegally usually to circumvent Taxation or Prohibition. The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago In order to support herself she takes a job as a secretary to married attorney Lloyd Rogers, who finds himself attracted to her but keeps his feelings secret out of respect for his wife. A secretary is either an administrative assistant in business office administration, or a certain type of mid- or high-level governmental position such as a An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute Jack Merrick, Jr. , the playboy son of a wealthy client, elopes with Mary, but his disapproving father interferes and has the marriage annulled. Annulment in the Catholic Church See also Annulment (Catholic Church In the Roman Catholic Church, a marriage is considered to be a valid contract

Soon after Mary discovers she is pregant and decides to have the child without informing Jack, who marries Florence Carson, a woman of his own social class. She later is left crippled by an automobile accident.

When Lloyd dies, he leaves Mary the bulk of his estate, but his wife, believing Mary's son is her husband's illegitimate child, attempts to overturn the will.

When Jack and his father learn the boy is his, the elder Merrick institutes proceedings to have Mary declared unfit and the child removed from her custody. Unable to withstand the stress of the legal proceedings, Mary allows Jack and Florence to have the child and leaves for Europe. When Florence dies, Jack follows Mary in the hope he'll find her and reunite her with their son.

Principal cast

Principal production credits

Critical reception

In his review in the New York Times, Frank S. Orry-Kelly was the professional name of John Orry Kelly ( December 31, 1897 - February 27, 1964) a prolific Hollywood Nugent declared, "For all the heaviness of its theme, for the hopeless monotony of its heroine's ill-fortune, the picture has dramatic value . . . Miss Davis performs valiantly as usual, giving color to a role which, in lesser hands, might have been colorless. " [1]

Time described it as "what is known as a players' picture; everyone gets the call, and everyone responds with all the theatrical craft he can summon up. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and " [2]

Variety said, "The production has class and atmosphere . Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman . . a finely made picture which deserves and will get extended first runs and which shoves Bette Davis a round or two higher as box office lure . . . [It] demands more of her talent than any film in which she has appeared . . . She displays screen acting of the highest order. " [3]

Of the film, Bette Davis herself said it "was certainly not one of my favorite scripts. There was a falseness to the whole project. But I did meet and work with Edmund Goulding for the first time. He concentrated on attractive shots of me - in other words, gave me the star treatment. It was the first time I had this. I was always a member of the cast - a leading member - but not made special in the way Goulding made me special in this film. " [4] The two went on to collaborate on three more films: Dark Victory (1939), The Old Maid (1939), and The Great Lie (1941). Dark Victory is a 1939 American Drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The Old Maid is a 1939 romantic drama film produced by Warner Brothers. The Great Lie is a 1941 film with Mary Astor, Bette Davis and George Brent.

References

  1. ^ New York Times review
  2. ^ Time review
  3. ^ That Certain Woman at Turner Classic Movies
  4. ^ That Certain Woman at Turner Classic Movies

External link

That Certain Woman at the Internet Broadway Database

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