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Charming Sinners
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Wikipedia article
'Charming Sinners' is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Milton and Dorothy Arzner (who was uncredited),Mayne, p. 54, 183 with a screenplay by Doris Anderson adapted from the 1926 play 'The Constant Wife' written by W. Somerset Maugham. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan, William Powell, Laura Hope Crews and Florence Eldridge. The film was released on August 17, 1929, by Paramount Pictures.
It has been described as a "splendid example of the early talkie period" with use of static camera and dialogue-heavy scenes.Bryant p.61
Plot
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, Kathryn Miles flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
Cast
*Ruth Chatterton as Kathryn Miles
*Clive Brook as Robert Miles
*Mary Nolan as Anne-Marie Whitley
*William Powell as Karl Kraley
*Laura Hope Crews as Mrs. Carr
*Florence Eldridge as Helen Carr
*Montagu Love as George Whitley
*Juliette Crosby as Margaret
*Lorraine MacLean as Alice
*Claud Allister as Gregson
References
Bibliography
* Bryant, Roger. 'William Powell: The Life and Films'. McFarland, 2014.
* Mayne, Judith. 'Directed by Dorothy Arzner'. Indiana University Press, 1995
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