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Devotion is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Ann Harding and Leslie Howard based on the 1930 Pamela Wynne novel A Little Flat in the Temple.Its plot involves a woman who disguises herself and gains employment in the home of the man she loves.
The novel was to remain in print until Caine's death in 1931, when it was in its 29th English edition and had been translated nine times. [4] The book was considered of such importance to Hall Caine's life work that the character of Mary O’Neill was one of the characters from his novels chosen to be carved onto his gravestone by Archibald Knox .
The Lady Refuses is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton. It stars Betty Compson as a destitute young woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute, who is hired by a wealthy man to woo his ne'er-do-well son away from ...
Husband's Holiday is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and written by Ernest Pascal and Viola Brothers Shore. The film stars Clive Brook, Vivienne Osborne, Charlie Ruggles, Juliette Compton, Harry Bannister, Dorothy Tree and Adrienne Ames. The film was released on December 19, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. [1] [2]
Behind the Make-Up is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and Dorothy Arzner (who was uncredited), [2] and based on the short story "The Feeder" by Mildred Cram.
Westward Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and starring Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, ZaSu Pitts and Irving Pichel. [2] The screenplay concerns a woman who falls in love and marries, but soon discovers how unpleasant her new husband is. [3]
The Miracle Woman is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film [1] directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, and Sam Hardy.Based on the play Bless You Sister by John Meehan and Robert Riskin, the film is about a clergyman’s daughter who becomes disillusioned by the mistreatment of her dying father by his church.
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.