Maruice Revnes Movies
- 1936
Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This lighthearted moment aside, Suzy, adapted from a novel by Herbert Gorman is a standard-issue love triangle, set against the tapestry of World War I. Harlow plays a London showgirl, married to Irish engineer Franchot Tone. When foreign spy Benita Hume shoots Tone, mistaking him as a threat against her mission, the terrified Harlow flees into the night, certain that she will be accused of her husband's murder. After the war breaks out, Harlow, believing herself a widow, falls in love with handsome aviator Cary Grant. She marries the well-bred but irresponsible young ace, only to discover that Tone has not been killed after all! This being an idealized World War I film, somebody is going to end up sacrificing his/her life on behalf of somebody else, but we're not about to reveal any more. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, (more)
- 1929
1929's The Awful Truth was the second of three film versions of Arthur Richman's 1922 play. Ina Claire (in her talking-picture debut) and Henry Daniell play a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court. Though they subsequently try out other partners, they never truly fall out of love with one another. Each sabotages the other's impending second marriage just before the inevitable reconciliation. Though both are repeating their original Broadway roles, Ina Claire and especially Henry Daniell seem stiff and studied when compared to Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in Leo McCarey's imperishable 1937 remake of The Awful Truth. This was one of several Pathe talking pictures made before that venerable production firm was absorbed by RKO in 1931. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
