No other woman

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Movie
Original title No other woman
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1933
length 58 minutes
Rod
Director J. Walter Ruben
script Wanda Tuchock , Bernard Schubert , Owen Francis
production David O. Selznick for RKO
music Max Steiner
camera Edward Cronjager
cut William Hamilton
occupation

No Other Woman is a 1933 melodrama starring Irene Dunne and Charles Bickford .

action

Jim Stanley is a miner. His wife Anna also runs a pension to increase the family's income. Thanks to an invention by Joe Zarcovia, guest at the Stanley's, the family prospered. After a few happy years, Jim falls for the seedy Margot Van Dearing. Jim demands a divorce from Anna, who refuses to give her consent. Margot urges Jim to get rid of Anna at all costs. There is a divorce suit in which Jim calls false witnesses who swear that Anna is constantly hanging around with other men. Anna is deeply affected and although the judge threatens her to lose custody of her child, Anna tearfully confesses the alleged affairs. Your sacrifice touches Jim in his heart and he jumps up to confess his manipulations. The court sentenced him to one year in prison for false testimony, and upon his release, Anna forgave him for his actions.

background

Since her debut in late 1930, Irene Dunne had risen to become RKO's biggest box office star . After her success in Back Street, the studio used Dunne in a whole series of films that stylized the actress as a martyr of love and an icon of selflessness. No Other Woman , which went into production in October 1932, once again showed Irene Dunne as a long-suffering wife, who without complaint endures every infamy of her unfaithful husband, never raises the slightest accusation and in the end even supports an infamous defamation campaign out of love. The studio put this aspect of Dunne's image in the foreground in its advertising for the film and declared the actress to be:

"America's idea of ​​the perfect woman, wife, mother and sweetheart."

Gwilli Andre, like Tala Birell , Wera Engels or Marta Labarr, was one of the countless European actresses who were unsuccessfully presented to the American audience as NEW Garbo at the beginning of the talky-about film era .

The film is based on the play Just a Woman , which saw 136 performances in 1916. In 1925, First National filmed the story for the first time with Claire Windsor and Conway Tearle in the lead roles.

Reviews

The New York Herald-Tribune saw the portrayal of Irene Dunne as a role model for other women and chose a somewhat daring comparison:

“The female Gandhi among movie stars is Hollywood's most compelling example of the power of passive resistance. [...] I am even convinced that she should be an inspiration for all of us and a good role model for American women. "

The New York Times was far less impressed:

“Although the actors really give everything in their power for their roles [...] the film lacks tension and where drama should actually be seen, everything is just hopelessly implausible. [...] Irene Dunne is not necessarily sympathetic, mainly because she tries too hard to look over her husband's mistakes. "

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ America's Idea of ​​the Perfect Woman, Mother, and Girlfriend.
  2. ↑ Lorraine LoBianco: No Other Woman (1933) Articles. Turner Classic Movies , accessed May 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The lady Gandhi of the cinema stars is Hollywood's most determined representative of the mobility of passive resistance. […] In fact I am sure she should be an inspiration to all of us and a fine example to American Womanhood.
  4. ↑ Even though […] the leading players do all that is virtually possible with their roles […] it lacks suspense and where it might be reasonably dramatic it is hopelessly implausible. [...] Irene Dunne, is not precisely sympathetic, chiefly because she is too willing to overlook her husband's reprehensible conduct.