No Other Woman (1933)

Director:

J. Walter Ruben

Writers:

Eugene Walter (play)
Wanda Tuchock (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

6 January 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness. |

Plot Keywords:

Gold Digger | Industrialist | Lawyer | Party | Remake

Cast

Irene Dunne	...	Anna Stanley
Charles Bickford	...	James 'Jim' Stanley
Gwili Andre	...	Margot Van Dearing
Eric Linden	...	Joe Zarcovia
Christian Rub	...	Eli Bogavitch
Leila Bennett	...	Susie Bogavitch
J. Carrol Naish	...	Bonelli
Buster Miles	...	Bobbie Stanley
Hilda Vaughn	...	Miss Leroy, Governess
Joseph E. Bernard	...	Frank Rogers, Butler
Frederick Burton	...	Attorney Anderson
Theodore von Eltz	...	Sutherland (as Theodore Von Eltz)
Edwin Stanley	...	Judge
Brooks Benedict	...	William Craven, Chauffeur
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Betty Furness	...	(scenes deleted)
Charles Middleton	...	(scenes deleted)

Also Known As:

The Public Be Damned (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

58 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Certification:

USA:Passed

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

Trivia:

The original play, "Just a Woman," opened in New York City, New York, USA on 17 January 1916 and had 136 performances.

Movie Connections:

Version of Just a Woman (1925)

Could'a Been a Great One, But......

I saw(?) this flick once before on the tube, but the reception on the station was so bad, I had to wait for it to come on again. It was a good wait, but it came around again. Irene Dunne and Charles Bickford were probably the only ones around who could'a pulled this one off. Bickford works at the mill, marries Dunne, works hard for the money, but somehow is just not satisfied with life. He's a lucky stiff though, as Irene Dunne-- as was wont of wives in those days--stuck with him through the thick and the thin of it. What is more incredulous is the rags to riches to rags aspect of this film. Bickford finances a new type of dye developed by the young upstart living in the family boarding house, and becomes a millionaire in the process. Yeah...right !! Still more incredulous--if not audacious--is the court scene where a very nasty divorce takes place, replete with witnesses who have been 'greased' to render perjured testimony...the whole nine yards. Bickford flies too close to the Sun with wings made of wax and...you can fairly well imagine the rest. It could'a worked, if the story had been a bit more developed, and if the film had been somewhat longer. This was essentially a character study which failed to study its characters with any depth.