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27 June 1931 (USA) morePlot:
When an English husband goes off to India for a year-long business trip, he also sends his wife to live... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Precode Kay in Paris moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Kay Francis | ... | Elsie Maury |
 | Paul Cavanagh | ... | Robert Maury |
| Ricardo Cortez | ... | Don Arturo de Borgus |
| Nance O'Neil | ... | Honora 'Nora' Maury |
| Doris Lloyd | ... | Paula Vrain |
| John St. Polis | ... | Serafin, Arturo's Butler |
| Ruth Weston | ... | Viscountess de Longueval |
| Adrienne D'Ambricourt | ... | Julie, Elsie's French Maid |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Agostino Borgato | ... | Carlos (scenes deleted) |
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Young Kay Francis commits a "Transgression" in this 1931 film also starring Paul Cavanagh and Ricardo Cortez. Kay is Elsie, the wife of a wealthy British businessman. The two share a huge, beautiful home in England. A business trip calls the husband, Robert, away to India for nearly a year, and wives are not allowed. So she will be less isolated, Elsie heads for Paris. There she becomes glamorous, sophisticated and worldly. She meets a rich, handsome Spainiard, Arturo (Cortez) who escorts her around and wants a lot more. He finagles a way to get her alone in his mansion; tragedy occurs.
This is an old-fashioned melodrama; few people could suffer like Kay Francis, even early on. Everything about her was so distinctive - her look, her voice, her clothes - it's hard to take your eyes off of her. Cortez is smooth and caddish as her pursuer; Paul Cavanagh as Elsie's husband is difficult to read. He never lets you know how he's going to react until the situation is upon him - then he might surprise you.
Mildly entertaining, of interest for the early Francis.