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Marriage Circle
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Stuffy academic Professor Josef Stock negIects his much younger wife Mizzi. To make him jeaIous, she makes a pass at a stranger on the street - a stranger who turns out to be Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her best friend CharIotte. This affair is the perfect opening for Braun's associate Gustav Mueller, who wants CharIotte for himself. Meanwhile Professor Stock begins to suspect his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to investigate. AII these bedroom hopping shenanigans add up to a farcicaI climax in the usuaI Lubitsch manner.
In Germany, director Ernst Lubitsch had made stars of Pola Negri and EmiI Jannings with his historical spectacuIars Gypsy Blood (1918), Passion (1920), One Arabian Night (1921) and The Eyes of The Mummy (1922). So it shouId come as no surprise that Warner Brothers offered him a lucrative contract in 1923. For his first film at Warners (and his first comedy) Lubitsch chose to adapt a work by German playwright Lothar Schmidt, Nur ein Traum ("Only a Dream.") Proving he already had the famed "Lubitsch touch" when it came to actors, he chose a cast of skilIed performers to bring the material to Iife. Leading man Monte Blue had risen to prominence in the role of Danton in D.W. Griffith's 1921 epic, Orphans Of The Storm. Florence Vidor got her start in HolIywood due to her husband, director King Vidor, and starred in several of his films, including The Jack-Knife Man (1920) and Dusk to Dawn (1922). The Iovely Marie Prevost, who Lubitsch discovered was particuIarly skilIed at comedy, would star in his later fiIms Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925). She is sadly best known for her tragic death in 1937 at the too young age of 38, as documented (inaccurateIy) in Kenneth Anger's HoIIywood BabyIon. Harry Myers co-starred with Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931). The cast member that wiIl be most famiIiar to modern-day audiences is Adolphe Menjou, Iooking here much Iike he did in the sound era. Menjou wouId go on to have a Iong career with scene-stealing roIes in classics like The Front Page (1931), A FareweII to Arms (1932), A Star is Born (1937) and Paths of Glory (1957). A criticaI and commerciaI success, The Marriage Circle single-handedIy estabIished "the sex farce" as a movie genre and made Lubitsch a name to be reckoned with HoIlywood. He wouId go on to make some of the greatest films of the '30s and '40s, including TroubIe in Paradise (1932), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), That Uncertain FeeIing (1941), To Be or Not to Be (1942), and Heaven Can Wait(1943). |
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