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29 August 1931 (USA) morePlot:
Valentine Winters goes to Paris to meet the divorced mother she has never known. She becomes involved... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Immoral behavior in Paris moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Joan Crawford | ... | Valentine 'Val' Winters |
 | Pauline Frederick | ... | Diane 'Di' Winters |
| Neil Hamilton | ... | Robert 'Bob' Blake Jr. |
| Monroe Owsley | ... | Tony Girard |
| Hobart Bosworth | ... | Mr. Robert Blake Sr. |
| Emma Dunn | ... | Mrs. Margaret Blake |
| Albert Conti | ... | André de Graignon |
| Adrienne D'Ambricourt | ... | Marie, the Housekeeper |
| Marcelle Corday | ... | Alyce, the Maid |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Marjorie Rambeau | ... | Diane 'Di' Winters (scenes deleted) |
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Fast-paced soaper set in Paris during an era in which `nobody cares' what you do. Upon the death of her father, an innocent `nineteen' year-old blonde Joan Crawford seeks out and is reunited with her divorced expatriate mother. The mother comes to realize that a chance at a renewed relationship with her daughter is worth more than a long-standing relationship with the Frenchman who has been paying her way for years. Mother and daughter move in together.
Complications with the boyfriend – a Harvard football man from a good American family. The kids fall hard for each other but when his parents see the kind of mother and friends she has – well there is the dickens to pay. A more sour looking pair would have been hard to find. Joan looks great (but not 19) in this movie and does a good job at being aghast when she finds out the truth about her mother.
Joan plays a girl whose world is to: make virtue of vice, never take anything seriously, and always be amusing. Yet she rebels against her mother's behavior. Will the daughter reconcile with and accept her mother for who she is? Can the sourpusses ever forgive the scandalous behavior of a fallen woman? Does a woman need a man before she is really happy (will those darn kids get together in the end)? Or will Joan run off instead and seek fulfillment elsewhere? These questions and more are answered in the dramatic conclusion of `This Modern Age.'