Jalna (film)

Jalna
Jalna
	Scene from the film featuring (left to right) David Manners, Molly Lamont, Kay Johnson, Nigel Bruce and Ian Hunter
Directed by	John Cromwell
Written by	Mazo de la Roche (novel); Garrett Fort (adaptation); Lawrence P. Bachmann (adaptation); Anthony Veiller (screenplay)
Produced by	Kenneth Macgowan
Starring	Kay Johnson; Ian Hunter; C. Aubrey Smith
Music by	Alberto Colombo
Production; company	RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	August 9, 1935;
Running time	75 or 78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Jalna is a 1935 RKO Radio Pictures film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Mazo de la Roche. It stars Kay Johnson, Ian Hunter and C. Aubrey Smith. In the film, a newlywed has to adjust to her husband's odd family.

Plot

Cast

Kay Johnson as Alayne Archer Whiteoak
Ian Hunter as Renny Whiteoak
C. Aubrey Smith as Uncle Nicholas Whiteoak
Nigel Bruce as Maurice Vaughan
David Manners as Eden Whiteoak
Peggy Wood as Meg Whiteoak
Jessie Ralph as Gran Whiteoak
Theodore Newton as Piers Whiteoak
Halliwell Hobbes as Uncle Ernest Whiteoak
George Offerman, Jr. as Finch Whiteoak
Clifford Severn as Wakefield "Wake" Whiteoak
Molly Lamont as Pheasant Vaughan Whiteoak
Forrester Harvey as Rags

Reception

The critic for The New York Times wrote, "the Whiteoaks are an interesting family—on paper or on the screen—and ... this first photoplay about them manages to do them justice."^[1] The reviewer praised "the generally splendid characterizations by an excellent cast".^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b F. S. N. (September 14, 1935). "Jalna (1935) At the Palace". The New York Times.

External links

Jalna at IMDb
Jalna at the TCM Movie Database

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[NYT-1] F. S. N. (September 14, 1935). "Jalna (1935) At the Palace". The New York Times.

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