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'The Silver Cord' is a 1933 American pre-Code film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by John Cromwell, and based on a 1926 Broadway play, 'The Silver Cord' by Sidney Howard, that starred Laura Hope Crews as an overly possessive mother.

Crews reprises her domineering mother role in this film with Joel McCrea and Irene Dunne as her son and daughter-in-law. Another Hollywood film dealing with an overbearing mother figure was 'Broken Laws' (1924), produced by and starring Dorothy Davenport.'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40' by The American Film Institute (1993)[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=10180 'The Silver Cord' as produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, December 20 1926 to March 1927], IBDb.com; accessed July 27, 2015.

Cast



*Irene Dunne - Christina Phelps

*Joel McCrea - David Phelps

*Laura Hope Crews - Mrs. Phelps

*Eric Linden - Robert Phelps

*Frances Dee - Hester

'unbilled'

*Helen Cromwell - Delia

*Paul Irving - Taxicab Driver

*Perry Ivins - Phelps Family Doctor

*Reinhold Pasch - Lab Technician

*Gustav von Seyffertitz - German Doctor

Production



Director John Cromwell welcomed the opportunity to adapt 'The Silver Cord' to the screen as he had directed Sidney Howards play in its 1926 Broadway production. Film historian Kingsley Canham reports that Crowell felt that he could pull it off better than any other [film] director. Canham, 1976 p. 65

Footnotes



References



*Canham, Kingsley. 1976. 'The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 5: King Vidor, John Cromwell, Mervyn LeRoy.' The Tantivy Press, London.

External



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*[https://archive.org/download/TheaterGuildontheAir/Tgoa_46-01-13_ep019-The_Silver_Cord-NoOpen.mp3 1946 'Theatre Guild on the Air' radio adaptation of original play at Internet Archive]

Category:1933 films

Category:American films based on plays

Category:Films directed by John Cromwell

Category:1933 romantic drama films

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Category:American black-and-white films

Category:Films with screenplays by Jane Murfin

Category:1930s American films


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