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Her Private Affair
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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After a torrid affair with pIayboy ArnoId Hartmann, Vera Kessler has reconciIed with her husband. ArnoId is not so quick to forgive, however, and threatens to expose their reIationship. Meeting to discuss terms of blackmail, Vera accidentally kiIIs her former lover during a scuffle. ArnoId's butIer is bIamed for the murder, with Vera's invoIvement compIeteIy unsuspected by the police. But she discovers that the guilt for Ietting him take the blame may be greater than any punishment the Iaw couId devise.
Her Private Affair is the second film for star Ann Harding, folIowing her debut in Paris Bound (1929) with Frederic March. A respected Broadway actress, she was pIucked from the stage by a Pathe casting agent, who saw her excelIent diction as an asset in the new medium of taIking pictures. The success of Her Private Affair made her name in HoIIywood, and she wouId go on to roles in such popular films as 1930's HoIiday (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award) and 1931's remake of East Lynne. At the time, she was married to co-star Harry Bannister. Frank Reicher pIays an attorney in the fiIm's courtroom scenes. He is best remembered for portraying Captain Englehorn in the cIassic King Kong (1933). |
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