After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Acting
Powell's smirk could start wars; Harding's steel behind velvet
Writing
Dialogue cuts like a letter opener at 3am
Director
John Cromwell
Ann Harding
Joan Colby Fletcher
William Powell
John Fletcher
Lucile Browne
Valerie Colby Moore
Henry Stephenson
Colonel Sam Colby
Lilian Bond
Monica Page
George Meeker
Dennis Moore
Reginald Owen
Freeman
Kay Hammond
Eleanor Weston
Wallis Clark
Postmaster General
Fred Santley
Bruno
Irving Bacon
Crab Counterman
Lita Chevret
Brunette Mannequin
Wong Chung
Chinese Cook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made mere months before the Hays Code crackdown, this is celluloid sin with plausible deniability—the 'temporary marriage' premise would be unthinkable by 1935.
Powell and Harding reunited for 'The Flame Within' (1935) where their dynamic curiously inverted—she played the unstable one pursuing him.
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