Charming Sinners | |
Director: | Robert Milton Dorothy Arzner (uncredited) |
Screenplay: | Doris Anderson |
Starring: | Ruth Chatterton Clive Brook Mary Nolan William Powell Laura Hope Crews Florence Eldridge |
Music: | Karl Hajos W. Franke Harling |
Cinematography: | Victor Milner |
Editing: | Verna Willis |
Studio: | Paramount Pictures |
Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
Released: | [1] |
Runtime: | 66 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Charming Sinners is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Milton and Dorothy Arzner (who was uncredited),[2] with a screenplay by Doris Anderson adapted from the 1926 play The Constant Wife written by W. Somerset Maugham. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan, William Powell, Laura Hope Crews and Florence Eldridge. The film was released on August 17, 1929, by Paramount Pictures.[3] [4]
It has been described as a "splendid example of the early talkie period" with use of static camera and dialogue-heavy scenes.[5]
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, Kathryn Miles flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.