This Modern Age
| This Modern Age | |
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| Directed by | Nick Grinde |
| Written by | Story: Mildred Cram Dialogue: Sylvia Thalberg Frank Butler |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Pauline Frederick Neil Hamilton |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
| Editing by | William LeVanway |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | 29 August 1931 |
| Running time | 68 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
This Modern Age (1931) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film directed by Nick Grinde starring Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Frederick and Albert Conti. The film was based upon the story Girl's Together by Mildred Cram.
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[edit] Plot summary
Socialite Valentine Winters (Crawford) is a child of divorced parents and has not seen her sophisticate mother, Diane, (Frederick), in years. She travels to Paris for a reunion where her mother is living as the mistress of Andre de Graignon (Conti). While in Paris, Valentine meets fun-loving Tony (Monroe Owsley). When Valentine and Tony are involved in car wreck, they are rescued from his overturned car by football-playing Harvardian Bob (Hamilton). Bob and Valentine fall in love, and, when he invites his parents (Hobart Bosworth and Emma Dunn) to meet her, everything goes wrong as they do not approve of Tony and his boisterous friends or of Diane's living arrangement with Andre . Not wanting to lose Bob, Valentine has a heart-to-heart talk with her mother and the two achieve a new closeness and understanding. Eventually, Bob and Valentine are reunited.
[edit] Reception
Mordaunt Hall in the New York Times commented, "The film glides along merrily most of the time, but now and again it has its off moments...Nicholas Grinde, [the director] has done splendid work by his comedy, but his serious interludes might have been handled more effectively."[1]
[edit] Cast
- Joan Crawford - Valentine Winters
- Pauline Frederick - Diane 'Di' Winters
- Neil Hamilton - Robert 'Bob' Blake Jr.
- Monroe Owsley - Tony Girard
- Hobart Bosworth - Robert Blake Sr.
- Emma Dunn - Mrs. Margaret Blake
- Albert Conti - Andre de Graignon
- Adrienne D'Ambricourt - Marie, the Housekeeper
- Marcelle Corday - Alyce, the Maid
deleted scenes
- Marjorie Rambeau - Diane 'Di' Winters
[edit] References
- ^ Quirk, Lawrence J.. The Films of Joan Crawford. The Citadel Press, 1968.
