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27 December 1929 (USA)
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Lally is a rich girl whose Father who writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, Father decides to divorce Harriet...
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Prayer
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Heart Disease
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Michigan
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Mistress
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Summer Resort
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Nominated for Oscar.
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a VERY cool old movie
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Norma Shearer | ... | Lucia 'Lally' Marlett | |
| Belle Bennett | ... | Harriet Marlett | |
| Lewis Stone | ... | Henry 'Hal' Marlett | |
| Robert Montgomery | ... | John Douglas Cheever | |
| Helene Millard | ... | Beth Cheever | |
| Cecil Cunningham | ... | Aunt Caroline Elrick | |
| Henry Hebert | ... | Uncle Nate Elrick | |
| Mary Doran | ... | Suzanne Elrick | |
| June Nash | ... | Mildred Elrick |
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65 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric System)
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[Lally, having just learned from her father that he is divorcing her mother to marry another woman, enters her mother's room.]
Lucia 'Lally' Marlett: Well, he's washed us up...given us the air.
[Mother weeps inconsolably as Lally lights a cigarette.]
Lucia 'Lally' Marlett: Oh, Mother, haven't you any pride?
Harriet Marlett: [between sobs] Oh Lally! What's pride when you care for a man--when you...when you...really...really care?
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Lucia 'Lally' Marlett: Well, he's washed us up...given us the air.
[Mother weeps inconsolably as Lally lights a cigarette.]
Lucia 'Lally' Marlett: Oh, Mother, haven't you any pride?
Harriet Marlett: [between sobs] Oh Lally! What's pride when you care for a man--when you...when you...really...really care?
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Soundtrack:
She's Got the Boyfriend Blues
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I watched and enjoyed this old first of the talkies. I it always cool for me to think of what life must have been prior to the depression and all of todays discoveries and new way of life. My mother was born in 1921, so I think of her life then. She would have been eight years old at this time. The cars , the actors, the dress is very nice and wonderfully done. I watch quite a lot of these old movies of this era, most were still silent at this point. This must have been one of the first of the 'talkies'. Just think what it was like to have no TV but to basically go to the movies for all you watched including news reals. It must've been great living in these days.