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Two White Arms
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Wikipedia article
'Two White Arms', also known as 'Wives Beware', is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Fred Niblo and starring Adolphe Menjou, Margaret Bannerman and Claud Allister.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114020349/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/55747 'Two White Arms' (1932)]. BFI. Retrieved 29 February 2016. It is adapted from a play by Harold Dearden.
Produced by Eric Hakim Productions and backed by MGM, the film was produced at Wembley Studios.[http://www.cineressources.net/consultationPdf/web/o001/1117.pdf "Angleterre"]. 'Cin Magazine' (in French), Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1932, p. 61a. It was Bannerman's first 'talkie'.
Premise
A man tires of married life and feigns the loss of his memory so he can pursue other women.
Cast
* Adolphe Menjou as Major Carey Liston
* Margaret Bannerman as Lydie Charrington
* Claud Allister as Doctor Biggash
* Jane Baxter as Alison Drury
* Kenneth Kove as Bob Russell
* Ellis Jeffreys as Lady Ellerslie
* Ren Ray as Trixie
* Jean Cadell as Mrs Drury
* Henry Wenman as Mears
* Spencer Trevor as Sir George
* Melville Cooper as Mack
Trivia
On 6 June 1933, 'Wives Beware' was shown at the Camden Drive-In Theater in Pennsauken, New Jersey, making it the first film shown at a fully dedicated drive-in theater.
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