Faithless (1932)Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him. Director:Harry Beaumont |
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Faithless (1932)Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him. Director:Harry Beaumont |
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Carol Morgan
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| Robert Montgomery | ... |
William 'Bill' Wade
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| Hugh Herbert | ... |
Mr. Peter M. Blainey
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Maurice Murphy | ... |
Anthony 'Tony' Wade
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Louise Closser Hale | ... |
First landlady
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Anna Appel | ... |
Mrs. Mandel, Second Landlady
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Lawrence Grant | ... |
Mr. Ledyard
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Henry Kolker | ... |
Mr. Carter
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Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Faithless is a 1932 weepie that casts Tallulah Bankhead as a carefree rich girl in love with hard-working advertising man, Robert Montgomery. It's her last Hollywood starring role for more than a decade.
Bankhead is great as she goes from playgirl to kept girl to street walker. Montgomery also goes bust and gets sick. There is a happy ending.
Hugh Herbert plays a nasty, noncomic part, Louise Closser Hale plays the landlady, Anna Appel is another landlady, Virginia Howell plays Herbert's jealous wife, Maurice Murphy (just dreadful) plays the younger brother,Henry Kolker is a banker, and Sterling Holloway is a photographer.
This is probably Bankhead's best 30s performance on film.... She is glamorous, slinky, funny, and pathetic all at once. Her drunk scene with Hugh Herbert is excellent as she laughs her throaty laugh even though she is lost and knows it. Montgomery us looser than usual. Herbert is surprisingly effective as the cad. And Hale is hilarious as the cheap landlady. This was the seventh of Bankhead's early talkies and her last til Lifeboat; she had also made 5 silent films.