Jalna (1935)
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their beautiful family estate located in souther Ontario. The story begins as a young Whiteoak, a novelist travels to New York where he encounters a charming woman, marries her, and takes her back to Jalna. There she encounters many difficulties as she attempts to adjust to life with his odd family. It does not help that several soap-operatic events transpired while he was gone when his brother married the illegitimate daughter of a despised neighbor. One day a "sexy dame" suddenly shows up on the family porch. Soon she and the novelist are trysting away, but before he can consummate their affair he is killed during a terrible fall. The new widow then realizes that it is a different brother that she loves. They soon marry. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Kay Johnson - Alayne Archer
- C. Aubrey Smith - Uncle Nicholas
- David Manners - Eden
- Jessie Ralph - Gran
- Theodore Newton - Piers
- Forrester Harvey - Rags
- Willie Best - Sam, Building Janitor
- Harry Holman - Mr. Cory, Publisher
- Ian Hunter - Renny Whiteoaks
- Nigel Bruce - Maurice Vaughn
- Peggy Wood - Meg
- Molly Lamont - Pheasant
- Halliwell Hobbes - Uncle Ernest
- Clifford Severn - Wakefield
- Ted Offenbecker - Finch
- Director(s):
- John Cromwell
- Writer(s):
- Garrett Elsden Fort, Lawrence P. Bachmann, Anthony Veiller
- Producer(s):
- Kenneth MacGowan
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