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The Rich Are Always with Us

  • 19321932
  • TV-GTV-G
  • 1h 11m
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6.2/10
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Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
ComedyDramaRomance
A socialite gets a divorce but can't keep out of her ex-husband's life.A socialite gets a divorce but can't keep out of her ex-husband's life.A socialite gets a divorce but can't keep out of her ex-husband's life.
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    • Alfred E. Green
    • Ethel Pettit(based on the novel of the same name by)
    • Austin Parker(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Ruth Chatterton
    • George Brent
    • Bette Davis
    • Alfred E. Green
    • Ethel Pettit(based on the novel of the same name by)
    • Austin Parker(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Ruth Chatterton
    • George Brent
    • Bette Davis
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 18User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    George Brent and Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent, Ruth Chatterton, and John Miljan in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    Bette Davis, George Brent, Ruth Chatterton, Adrienne Dore, and John Miljan in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    Bette Davis and George Brent in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent and Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    John Miljan in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    Ruth Chatterton and Virginia Hammond in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent, Ruth Chatterton, and John Miljan in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent and Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent and Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent and Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
    George Brent, Ruth Chatterton, and Adrienne Dore in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)

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    Ruth Chatterton
    Ruth Chatterton
    • Caroline Grannard
    George Brent
    George Brent
    • Julian Tierney
    Bette Davis
    Bette Davis
    • Malbro
    John Miljan
    John Miljan
    • Greg Grannard
    Adrienne Dore
    Adrienne Dore
    • Allison Adair
    John Wray
    John Wray
    • Clark Davis
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • The Doctor
    Walter Walker
    • Dante
    Virginia Hammond
    Virginia Hammond
    • Flo
    Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill
    • Judge Bradshaw
    • (as Burton Churchill)
    Edith Allen
    • First Gossiper in 1900
    • (uncredited)
    Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham
    • Woman Talking to Tierney at Party
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Elliott
    Bill Elliott
    • Gambler
    • (uncredited)
    Eula Guy
    • Miss Drake
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Hall
    Ruth Hall
    • Gossiper in 1930
    • (uncredited)
    Ethel Kenyon
    Ethel Kenyon
    • Seated Gossiper in 1900
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Lee
    Ruth Lee
    • Second Gossiper in 1920
    • (uncredited)
    Carl M. Leviness
    Carl M. Leviness
    • Night Club Patron
    • (uncredited)
      • Alfred E. Green
      • Ethel Pettit(based on the novel of the same name by)
      • Austin Parker(adaptation)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Ruth Chatterton and George Brent married shortly after this film. And divorced two years later.
    • Goofs
      At the beginning of the film when Caroline and Julian are at the restaurant, the space between them keeps changing between shots.
    • Quotes

      Caroline Grannard: Malbro, I tell you what to do. You pursue him to the point where he either proposes to you or shoots you. If he shoots you, you're troubles are over. If he proposes, they're just beginning.

    • Crazy credits
      Card at beginning:

      1900

      after a few minutes... 1920. then... 1930...
    • Connections
      Featured in Women He's Undressed (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      A Bird in a Gilded Cage
      (1900) (uncredited)

      Music by Harry von Tilzer

      Played when "1900" is shown

    User reviews18

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    5/10
    Flimsy story, worth watching for performances
    There are 3 short clips at the start of this movie, set in 1900, 1920, and 1930, respectively, taking place in powder rooms where high society women gossip about Caroline Grannard, lead character, 'richest woman in the world', played by Ruth Chatterton; she is born, gets married, and lunching with writer Julian Tierney (George Brent). Interior decoration, dress, and even background music, are all period appropriate. While Warner Brothers probably had these sets and dresses and extras lying about from other movies, and whole thing cost very little, question that interest me is why all that for a simple exposition that would have taken two lines of dialogue in the movie proper? Did the director and producers wanted filler to pad up something so insubstantial that it cannot even stand on its own for 1 hour and 10 minutes? Seems so.

    Plot here involve romantic and marital entanglements of rich society people, mainly on who the lead character really loves, her (soon ex) husband she 'mothers', or the writer who she keeps hanging without deciding (to the annoyance of a rather spoiled society girl (Bette Davis) who is in love with him). Nothing else, there is no higher purpose, no socio political commentary, no deep psychology, no insight into human nature and relationships, no simple enjoyable love story/villainy even. While there is no absolute requirement that movies should have some of that, absence do make them rather boring.

    However, this is not boring, mainly because of the acting. Chatterton is so good that i want to see more of her movies. As others have noted, in this movie she has a way of repeating and even stammering some dialogue that is so naturalistic that i initially wondered whether they had run out of takes and used the least bad. But it happened frequently enough, and there were similar stuff with her gestures, that it was soon clear it was deliberate. She comes from a stage background, but when modern 'method actors' use similar techniques, you can spot them right away. Almost all the others were rather good too, though from a different style. Brent as usual underplays his part. Energetic Davis (3 years before her breakthrough role in 'On Human Bonadge') in that phase of career when Warner tried to make her blond, sexy, and glamorous (successfully in my opinion though she herself thought otherwise), found the right foil in Brent (with whom she was to star in quite a number of her best movies), as demonstrated by her scene with him in his apartment. John Miljan, who plays husband, and Adrienne Dore as his lover, were also good.
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    • Jul 25, 2015

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    • Release date
      • May 21, 1932 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • First National Pictures
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    • 1 hour 11 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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