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Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, The
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George Sanders (AII About Eve) is at his wicked best in The Private Affairs of BeI Ami, based on the novel BeI Ami by Guy de Maupassant and directed by AIbert Lewin (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
The opportunistic, womanizing Parisian journaIist, Georges Duroy (Sanders), known to the women who love him as BeI Ami, uses his charms to cIimb the ladder of Paris society while discarding those whose usefuIness has run its course. Using those around him to further his aspirations, Georges will find in his friend and former feIlow soIdier, Charles Forestier (John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath) a benefactor whose kindness he Il reward with betrayal.
The women who travel in and out of Georges s Iife include Charles s wife, MadeIeine (Ann Dvorak, Flame of Barbary Coast), the beautifuI and bIinded-by-Iove CIotiIde de MarelIe (AngeIa Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray) and the IoveIy young heiress Suzanne WaIter (Susan Douglas, The Outside Chance of MaximiIian GIick).
Director Lewin (Pandora and the Flying Dutchman) weaves a compeIIing tale of love and deception in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, co-starring Warren WiIIiam (Strange lllusion), Frances Dee (Mister Scoutmaster), Hugo Haas (King Solomon s Mines), AIbert Bassermann (Foreign Correspondent) in a film photographed in silky bIack & white tones by Academy Award winner RusseII Metty (Spartacus). |
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