Payment on Demand (1951)
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Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays the wife of Barry Sullivan, who one fine morning demands a divorce. Most of the film is in flashback, recounting the events leading up to the marital schism. After Sullivan takes up with Frances Dee, Davis heads for a Haitian vacation, hoping to spark a few affairs of her own. But after a chance meeting with an old friend (Jane Cowl) who's become hard and cynical since her own divorce, Davis heads back to the States and attempts to patch up her marriage. Director Curtis Bernhardt was particularly proud of the opening scene in Payment on Demand, wherein Barry Sullivan requests a divorce as calmly as if he was ordering breakfast. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Bette Davis - Joyce Ramsey
- Jane Cowl - Mrs. Hedges
- Betty Lynn - Martha Ramsey
- Frances Dee - School teacher
- Otto Kruger - Prescott
- Brett King - Phil Polanski
- Natalie Schafer - Mrs. Blanton
- Lisa Golm - Molly
- Moroni Olsen - Attorney
- Ilka Gruning - Mrs. Polanski
- Mack Williams - Pinkins
- Ruth Lee - Aunt Edna
- Barry Sullivan - David Ramsey
- Kent Taylor - Robert Townsend
- John Sutton - Businessman
- Peggie Castle - Diana Ramsey
- Walter Sande - Swanson
- Richard Anderson - Jim Boland
- Katherine Emery - Mrs. Gates
- Lela Bliss - Mrs. Filson
- Barbara Peterson Davis
- Kathleen Ellis - Receptionist
- David Leonard - Mr. Polanski
- Jay Brooks - Butler
- Director(s):
- Curtis Bernhardt
- Writer(s):
- Chick Bernhardt, Bruce Manning, Curtis Bernhardt
- Producer(s):
- Bruce Manning, Jack H. Skirball
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