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28 November 1931 (USA)
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Love, lust, possession, money, social standing, and addiction. Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler; though loved by her husband Jeff...
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Playgirl Tallulah Meets Her Match
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(Complete credited cast) | Tallulah Bankhead | ... | Elsa Carlyle |
| Harvey Stephens | ... | Jeffrey Carlyle |
| Irving Pichel | ... | Hardy Livingstone |
| Jay Fassett | ... | Terrell |
| Ann Andrews | ... | Mrs. Albright |
| William Ingersoll | ... | Croupier |
| Hanaki Yoshiwara | ... | Japanese Servant |
| Willard Dashiell | ... | Judge |
| Edward Keane | ... | Defense Attorney |
| Robert Strange | ... | District Attorney |
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74 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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Jeffrey Carlyle:
I love you. I didn't marry you because I thought you could spell or add, but because of who you are.
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I found this film quite absorbing with a showy performance by Bankhead. She plays the "out-of-control" wife of a loving and up-standing young man (Harvey Stephens). Her gambling debts get her in hock with an untrustworthy admirer (Irving Pichel). Pichel's penchant for the more bizarre aspects of Oriental culture colors his and Tallulah's relationship into multiple arms of scandal. There is a great climax court room scene wherein Bankhead hams it up wonderfully. I'll say nothing more than that "sizzling flesh" is involved here. It must be seen to be believed. The photography and direction is nicely done and for a 1931 film everything moves along quite admirably.