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Synopsis: Park Avenue party-girl Mary (Norma Shearer) and staid English nobleman, Lord Phillip Rexford (Herbert Marshall) are married on a lark, they live happily in London. He must travel to America on business leaving her home alone. Lord Rexford's aunt invites Mary on a trip to the Riviera where she runs into an old flame, Tommie Treal (Robert Montgomery). Under the spell of the sea breezes and the Mediterranean moon (a semi-excuse for adultery to keep Queen Norma's image clean, as this was a post-Production Code film), Mary is the "innocent" victim of a romantic escapade that makes headlines as well as the scandal sheets. None of Mary's explanations can soothe Lord Phillip, his cold indifference drives Mary, who fights against it (a minor and feeble struggle at best), closer to Tommie. As the two lovers surrender to their ardor, Lord R. learns from his lawyer that Mary had been telling the truth, and he calls for her to join him in Cannes with a clean slate. O.K, but as Chief White Eagle tol
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
6.5
PASSED
Year:
1934
92 min
174 Views


Marry me.

Will you marry me ?

Oh, darling.

How sweet of you to say that.

That's perfect, but...

I wouldn't do such because I loves you too much.

Kipling.

Oh, why not ? Why not ?

No, we're entirely different people.

You're completely you and I'm...

well, I don't know what I am.

I don't see we're so different.

Don't you ?

You would when you came out of the ether.

It's been a beautiful spree.

And I mustn't let you

be swept of your feet, you see ?

I just want you to think of me once in a while.

Come on.

Oh, thank you, Ransome.

I'd almost forgotten these. For you.

It looks expensive.

Oh, you haven't !

Pearls.

But why ?

Round your neck. Why not ?

I thought pearls...

Oh, darling, pearls have nothing

to do with the way I feel about you.

No, you haven't money enough

to buy what you have already given me.

A very bright little corner of the city in all my life.

Oh, my sweet.

I suppose it was rather odd of me.

Not at all.

Now get on that boat

that's taking you thousands of miles away.

This time even you are going too far.

Be happy, Mary. All your life.

And all yours, Philip.

Let's not have one regret ever, never one.

No.

Would you like the message

delivered personally, madam ?

Darling !

Your boat.

There are lots of boats.

Only one Mary.

Your baggage ?

Gone.

Gone ? I can't believe it.

Do you know some place where

they can accept a nice

respectable lad without luggage ?

This is a very hospitable city we have here, sir.

Darling, I suddenly couldn't leave you. I simply couldn't.

Mary, this is it.

What ?

Us.

You mean...

Me Lady Rexford ?

Yes, dear.

Oh, darling.

After all those things I told you about me ?

Think now. Think hard.

I have thought. It's all forgotten.

Or isn't it ?

Oh, yes, if you say so. Buried and forgotten.

Only you in the world.

Are you sure you can forgive it all ?

Forgiven.

Forgiven ?

All right, from now on a ring in the nose

and a beating every Saturday night, please.

Yes.

I remember distinctly what I said.

How I hate you in this mood.

You always crabby after lunch.

Why do you go if you don't have to ?

Because Philip happens to be going to America today.

And he knows I'm in town.

Isn't he very dull ?

No sense of humor whatever.

They say the little American girl

he's married is full of ginger.

I invariably laugh with Americans.

But she can't be very amusing,

or she'd never have married Philip.

You'll laugh. You always do.

Oh, his father was such a gay old buck.

The naughty old devil.

Now, please don't start

a long old story of reminiscence.

We're nearly there.

You cheeky little brute.

How I hate London. I hate it !

Why did I ever come back ?

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Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British film writer and director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 British made Paramount silent Three Live Ghosts alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick. Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard. Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as Love (1927), Grand Hotel (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory (1939) with Bette Davis, and The Razor's Edge (1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power. He also directed the classic film noir Nightmare Alley (1947) with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and the action drama The Dawn Patrol. He was also a successful songwriter, composer, and producer. more…

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