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A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Agostino Borgato
- Fortune Teller
- (uncredited)
Lita Chevret
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
- American Radio Announcer
- (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
- Woman with Organ Grinder
- (uncredited)
Margaret Lindsay
- Autograph Seeker at Party
- (uncredited)
Gwendolyn Logan
- Bradford
- (uncredited)
Miki Morita
- Japanese Radio Announcer
- (uncredited)
Paul Ralli
- Tango Dancer
- (uncredited)
Zena Savine
- Elaine's Maid
- (uncredited)
Pat Somerset
- The Second Bobby
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen this movie was made, Colin Clive was 33; Billie Burke, who played his wife, was 49; and Helen Chandler, who played their daughter, was 27.
- GoofsAt the end of the film, the newspaper headline telling of Cynthia's death is accompanied by text that begins to recount the news, but changes into nonsensical wording after a few lines.
- Quotes
Lady Cynthia Darrington: I wouldn't have loved you if you'd been a usual man. And you wouldn't have loved me if I'd been a woman who didn't take this kind of thing seriously.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story: A Woman's Lot (1987)
- SoundtracksNearer My God To Thee
(uncredited)
Music by Lowell Mason (1856)
Lyrics by Sarah F. Adams
Played by an unidentified organ grinder
Featured review
Hepburn Soars
Sir CHRISTOPHER STRONG, staunch family man and Conservative MP, finds himself falling in love with a free-spirited aviatrix.
Given splendid production values by RKO Radio Pictures, this high-class soap opera proved to be an excellent showcase for the talents of young Katharine Hepburn. Tall, angular, tomboyish, in a role patterned after Amelia Earhart, Hepburn is utterly fascinating as the woman who's never loved. Whether striding about in men's clothing or swathed in an outrageous moth costume, she makes the heartache & jubilation of her character play across her expressive features. It is almost painful to try imagining anyone else in the role. Her final scene, as she gives the ultimate sacrifice, is especially poignant.
Colin Clive seems an unlikely choice as the object of Hepburn's passion, but he acts his part with great earnestness, deftly underplaying what could have easily been a stiff & cardboard characterization. In a serious role, the wonderful Billie Burke skillfully delineates the agony of the unloved wife. Like Hepburn, she remains in the memory long after the film ends.
Helen Chandler & Irene Browne, as Clive's daughter & sister respectively, do well with their portrayals of socially irresponsible females. Ralph Forbes, as an upper class philanderer, also resonates in an important supporting role; here was an actor with the talent & charm to have become a major Hollywood star, but it was not to be.
Pioneering director Dorothy Arzner includes subtle suggestions of the sapphist in Hepburn's character, to be rejected or respected by individual viewers. As it is, certain situations in the plot show its pre-Production Code status.
Given splendid production values by RKO Radio Pictures, this high-class soap opera proved to be an excellent showcase for the talents of young Katharine Hepburn. Tall, angular, tomboyish, in a role patterned after Amelia Earhart, Hepburn is utterly fascinating as the woman who's never loved. Whether striding about in men's clothing or swathed in an outrageous moth costume, she makes the heartache & jubilation of her character play across her expressive features. It is almost painful to try imagining anyone else in the role. Her final scene, as she gives the ultimate sacrifice, is especially poignant.
Colin Clive seems an unlikely choice as the object of Hepburn's passion, but he acts his part with great earnestness, deftly underplaying what could have easily been a stiff & cardboard characterization. In a serious role, the wonderful Billie Burke skillfully delineates the agony of the unloved wife. Like Hepburn, she remains in the memory long after the film ends.
Helen Chandler & Irene Browne, as Clive's daughter & sister respectively, do well with their portrayals of socially irresponsible females. Ralph Forbes, as an upper class philanderer, also resonates in an important supporting role; here was an actor with the talent & charm to have become a major Hollywood star, but it was not to be.
Pioneering director Dorothy Arzner includes subtle suggestions of the sapphist in Hepburn's character, to be rejected or respected by individual viewers. As it is, certain situations in the plot show its pre-Production Code status.
- Ron Oliver
- Sep 8, 2001
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- Fruto dorado
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- Budget
- $284,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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