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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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- 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
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Title Should Have Been Cynthia Darrington
I'm not quite sure why the title of this film is not Lady Cynthia Darrington since the film rises and falls on the action of Hepburn's character and not on Colin Clive's title role of Christopher Strong.
Clive is a most proper member of Parliament, probably a Tory, who through a treasure hunt, a la My Man Godfrey, he meets Hepburn who is a young titled woman who has an interest in aviation. In fact she's the British version of Amelia Earhart.
Clive and wife Billie Burke have a daughter, Helen Chandler, who is something of a wild child. She's having an affair with the unhappily married Ralph Forbes. But before long it's Clive and Hepburn who get involved.
Colin Clive gives us a perfect portrayal of a man going through midlife crisis when everything just seems to settle in a dull routine. He's so taken by Hepburn's vitality and independence that their affair has an inevitability about it.
Dorothy Arzner one of the few women directors around at that point also gives us one of Kate's very first feminist icon roles. Her first film, A Bill of Divorcement, had Kate as a dutiful daughter who gives up her man to care for an insane father. Kate has some critical choices to make in Christopher Strong as well.
What she does might not make sense to today's audience, but made perfectly good sense in post Victorian Great Britain. She and Clive make a wonderful pair of tragic lovers in a drama that while old fashioned still holds up.
Clive is a most proper member of Parliament, probably a Tory, who through a treasure hunt, a la My Man Godfrey, he meets Hepburn who is a young titled woman who has an interest in aviation. In fact she's the British version of Amelia Earhart.
Clive and wife Billie Burke have a daughter, Helen Chandler, who is something of a wild child. She's having an affair with the unhappily married Ralph Forbes. But before long it's Clive and Hepburn who get involved.
Colin Clive gives us a perfect portrayal of a man going through midlife crisis when everything just seems to settle in a dull routine. He's so taken by Hepburn's vitality and independence that their affair has an inevitability about it.
Dorothy Arzner one of the few women directors around at that point also gives us one of Kate's very first feminist icon roles. Her first film, A Bill of Divorcement, had Kate as a dutiful daughter who gives up her man to care for an insane father. Kate has some critical choices to make in Christopher Strong as well.
What she does might not make sense to today's audience, but made perfectly good sense in post Victorian Great Britain. She and Clive make a wonderful pair of tragic lovers in a drama that while old fashioned still holds up.
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- May 7, 2007
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- The Great Desire
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- $284,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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