Reunion in Vienna is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama produced and distributed by MGM. Sidney Franklin served as director. The film stars John Barrymore in a story taken from the 1931 stage play of the same name by Robert Emmet Sherwood.[2][3]
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Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
Written by | Robert Emmet Sherwood (play Reunion in Vienna) Ernest Vajda Claudine West |
Produced by | Louis B. Mayer Irving Thalberg |
Starring | John Barrymore |
Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
Music by | William Axt Paul Marquardt |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $478,000[1] |
Box office | $643,000[1] |
Plot
editAn archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Cast
edit- John Barrymore as Archduke Rudolf von Habsburg
- Diana Wynyard as Elena Krug
- Frank Morgan as Dr. Anton King
- Henry Travers as Father Krug
- May Robson as Frau Lucher
- Eduardo Ciannelli as Pofferoff
- Una Merkel as Ilsa Hinrich
- Bodil Rosing as Kathie (Krug family's maid)
- Bela Loblov as Musician
- Morris Nussbaum as Musician
- Nella Walker as Countess Von Stainz
- Hebert Evans as Count Von Stainz
- Unbilled
- Morris Ankrum as Bit Role
- Symona Boniface as Noblewoman
- John Davidson as Officer
- George Davis as Waiter
- Ferdinand Gottschalk as tour guide
- Tenen Holtz as Tourist with Drapes
- Alphonse Maartell as Nobleman
- Torben Meyer as Headwaiter Strumpf
- Edmund Mortimer as Tourist
- Paul Porcasi as Chef
- Lucien Prival as Colline, Waiter
- Edward Reinach as Aristocrat
- Tom Ricketts as Nobleman
- Rolfe Sedan as Valet
- Anders Van Haden as Aristocrat
- Ellinor Vanderveer as Noblewoman
- Dorothy Vernon as Tourist
- William von Hardenburg as Aristocrat
Box office
editThe film grossed a total (domestic and foreign) of $643,000: $379,000 from the US and Canada and $264,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $134,000.[1] It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
References
edit- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Film 1931-40 by The American film Institute, c.1993]
- ^ Reunion in Vienna as produced on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre November 16,1931 to July 1932, 164 performances; IBDb.com