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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 Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett.First published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later).
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]
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, a 2015 biography of Thomas J. Hudner Jr. and Jesse L. Brown Devotion , a 2021 novel by Hannah Kent Music
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 ...
According to Catherine Kenney, "Miss Climpson is one of the brighter and more believable examples of the female sleuth." [3] Other scholars have described her as a character whose modern, earnest and public devotion to Anglicanism drives her morality, a characterization unique in Sayers’ novels. [4]
Sanctuary is a 1931 novel by American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes.
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]