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'Her Private Life' is a surviving[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6097/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'Her Private Life'] 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.[http://silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html 'Her Private Life' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: 'First National Pictures 1929'] However, in July 2016, according to the Library of Congress, the film was found in an Italian archive.
This was Korda's second sound film, following 'The Squall'. It is a remake of the 1925 silent film 'Dclasse' by Robert G. Vignola, which was itself an adaptation of a 1919 play of the same name by Zo Akins.Kulik p.51-52
Cast
* 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
*List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features
References
Bibliography
* Kulik, Karol. 'Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles'. Virgin Books, 1990.
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