Charming Sinners Explained

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]

Plot

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.

Cast

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Notes and References

  1. New York Daily News 7 Jul 1929, p 48.
  2. Mayne, p. 54, 183
  3. Web site: Charming-Sinners - Trailer - Cast. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214210717/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/87020/Charming-Sinners/overview. dead. February 14, 2015. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Hal Erickson. Hal Erickson (author). 2015. February 14, 2015.
  4. Web site: Charming Sinners. afi.com. July 6, 2017.
  5. Bryant p.61