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The Age of Innocence (1934 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Age of Innocence' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Philip Moeller and starring Irene Dunne, John Boles and Lionel Atwill. The film is an adaptation of the 1920 novel 'The Age of Innocence' by Edith Wharton, set in the fashionable New York society of the 1870s. Prolific on Broadway, Philip Moeller directed only two films: this, and the 1935 'Break of Hearts' with Katharine Hepburn.
The novel was also adapted in a 1924 silent film version starring Beverly Bayne and a 1993 film version that starred Michelle Pfeiffer. A 1928 Broadway stage adaptation starred Katharine Cornell.http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5810/The-Age-of-Innocence/articles.html
Premise
At his 1875 engagement party, the wealthy Newland Archer (John Boles) is surprised to meet his childhood friend Ellen (Irene Dunne), beautiful and grown up and now Countess Olenska. Olenska is the cousin of his fiancee May (Julie Haydon) and is considered scandalous by the strait-laced society of the time. Newland, however, treats her well and sends her two dozen yellow roses. Olenska turns to Newland for advice about a possible divorce.
Cast
(seated center, holding eye-shade) on the set of 'The Age of Innocence'. Assistant director Edward Killy (seated center foreground) rehearses actor John Boles (left); Irene Dunne is behind the lights, smiling down.
* Irene Dunne as Countess Ellen Olenska
* John Boles as Newland Archer
* Lionel Atwill as Julius Beaufort
* Helen Westley as Granny Manson Mingott
* Laura Hope Crews as Augusta Welland
* Julie Haydon as May Welland
* Herbert Yost as Howard Welland
* Teresa Maxwell-Conover as Mrs. Archer
* Edith Van Cleve as Jane Archer
* Leonard Carey as Jasper, the Butler
* Harry Beresford as Museum Guard (uncredited)
* Herbert Bunston as W.J. Letterblair (uncredited)
Reception
The film was a box-office disappointment.Churchill, Douglas W. [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB071FFB3E59107A93C2AA1789D95F408385F9 The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era '(gate locked)']; 'New York Times' [New York, N.Y] 30 Dec 1934: X5. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
References
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