Her Private Life is a surviving[1] 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon and Holmes Herbert. The plot concerns an English aristocrat who causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American. The film had been considered a lost film.[2] However, in July 2016, according to the Library of Congress, the film was found in an Italian archive.
| Her Private Life | |
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 Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love and Billie Dove | |
| Directed by | Alexander Korda |
| Screenplay by | Forrest Halsey |
| Based on | Déclassée by Zoë Akins |
| Produced by | Ned Marin |
| Starring | Billie Dove Walter Pidgeon Holmes Herbert Montagu Love |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Harold Young |
| Music by | Cecil Copping Alois Reiser |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
This was Korda's second sound film, following The Squall. It is a remake of the 1925 silent film Déclassée by Robert G. Vignola, which was itself an adaptation of a 1919 play of the same name by Zoë Akins.[3]
Cast
edit- Billie Dove as Lady Helen Haden
- Walter Pidgeon as Ned Thayer
- Holmes Herbert as Rudolph Solomon
- Montagu Love as Sir Bruce Haden
- Thelma Todd as Mrs. Leslie
- Roland Young as Charteris
- Mary Forbes as Lady Wildering
- Brandon Hurst as Sir Emmett Wildering
- ZaSu Pitts as Timmins
See also
editReferences
editBibliography
edit- Kulik, Karol. Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.
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