Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Acting
Shearer's knowing glances speak entire suppressed monologues.
Costume
Adrian's gowns that drape like liquid scandal.
Direction
Goulding's elegant framing of impossible choices.
Director
Edmund Goulding
Norma Shearer
Lady Mary Rexford
Robert Montgomery
Tommie L. Trent
Herbert Marshall
Lord Philip Rexford
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Erskine
Ralph Forbes
David Fenwick
Lilyan Tashman
Sylvia Wilson
Earl Oxford
Freddie Gray
Helen Jerome Eddy
Celeste
George K. Arthur
Bertie Davis
Halliwell Hobbes
Bollard
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Slick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before the Hays Code crackdown, Riptide got away with suggesting married women could desire other men without divine retribution.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, playing Aunt Hetty, was the original Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion and reportedly hated Hollywood.
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