The Trespasser (1929)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Writer:

Edmund Goulding (written by)

Release Date:

11 November 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled...

Plot Keywords:

Chicago Illinois | Beautiful Woman | Society

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Gloria Swanson	...	Marion Donnell
Robert Ames	...	Jack Merrick
Purnell Pratt	...	Hector Ferguson
Henry B. Walthall	...	Fuller
Wally Albright	...	Jack Merrick (as Wally Albright Jr.)
William Holden	...	John Merrick, Sr.
Blanche Friderici	...	Miss Potter - Nurse (as Blanche Frederici)
Kay Hammond	...	Catherine 'Flip' Merrick
Mary Forbes	...	Mrs. Ferguson
Marcelle Corday	...	Blanche
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Henry Armetta	...	Fred - the Barber
Brooks Benedict	...	Reporter
Billy Bevan	...	Reporter
Ed Brady	...	Moving man
Allan Cavan	...	Doctor
Richard Cramer	...	Reporter (as Dick Cramer)
Stuart Erwin	...	Reporter
William H. O'Brien	...	Butler (as Bill O'Brien)
Lloyd Whitlock	...	Board member

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Filming Locations:

United Artists Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Gloria Productions

Trivia:

Gloria Swanson originally hired writer/director Edmund Goulding to help her complete Queen Kelly, the unfinished silent epic she'd started with Erich von Stroheim. After he'd spent months editing Von Stroheim's footage, Goulding persuaded Swanson to make The Trespasser instead. He wrote the script in three weeks, the movie was in theaters by the end of the year, and Swanson recouped enough money to pay off Queen Kelly's backers.

Movie Connections:

Remade as That Certain Woman (1937)

Soundtrack:

I Love You Truly

Fine Swanson performance as kept woman - Oscar nom

Here Swanson plays the "other woman" - kept by her employer. It's typical of the genre known as "women's pictures." Swanson does an excellent job in her first talkie and earned her second Oscar nom for her work. It's fun to see a blatant continuity error -she enters the bathroom to freshen wearing a bob cut and emerges with long hair. Archive print in the George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.