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- TriviaPeg Entwistle, who played Hazel Clay Cousins, committed suicide, two days after the film's American date of release, Friday, September 16th, 1932. She jumped off the "H" of the Hollywood sign, then "Hollywoodland.", on Sunday, September 18th, 1932.
- GoofsAfter the swami falls in the subway, a passenger train passes by. The bell on top is ringing, but it makes no sound.
- Quotes
Ursula Georgi: How I used to envy you girls. Your parties, your sorority.
Helen Dawson Frye: You're lucky you don't belong, if you ask me.
Ursula Georgi: Because of those timetables laid out by the stars you were talking about? You straight-thinking, oh so rational Anglo-Saxons don't believe in such things, do you?
Helen Dawson Frye: Laura doesn't, thank goodness.
Ursula Georgi: Mrs. Stanhope always was a strong character, wasn't she?
Helen Dawson Frye: Yes. That's why she's getting us all together. To laugh it all away. I haven't laughed in so long. My little girl had the bluest eyes. She was just two and a half years old... It's what happened to Yogadachi himself that makes it all so convincing. He predicted even the date he'd go. You can't laugh that off, can you.
Ursula Georgi: No.
Helen Dawson Frye: I want you to read his last letter.
[She gives Ursula a crumpled letter, then picks up a revolver and gestures with it as she speaks]
Helen Dawson Frye: Isn't that silly? A man I've never seen! He has the nerve to tell me that I'm going to kill myself.
Ursula Georgi: Why the gun, then? Aren't you afraid?
Helen Dawson Frye: Afraid? Why, of course not. It belongs to my husband. I brought it along with me just to prove to myself that that swami is bogus. If- if I avoided the thing now, I would know that I was afraid. Oh, are you going to bed?
Ursula Georgi: Yes, it's so late. We'll be in Los Angeles in the morning. I'll see you at breakfast.
Helen Dawson Frye: Fine.
Ursula Georgi: [Looking at the gun] But if I were you, I'd...
Helen Dawson Frye: This? Don't worry, no stars are going to twinkle twinkle me into committing suicide.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hagan Reviews: 13 Women (2015)
This silly junk was one of Myrna's final Eurasian villainess roles. It's interesting after years of exposure to her as the perfect wife or the level headed, spunky All-American woman to see her in a role that was typical of her pre-stardom days, that of the foreign mantrap. She looks great but is far better than the part deserves. She is noticeably understated while most of the other performers over emote.
Made when sound was in its relative infancy many of the performers are still reliant on over-sized, distracting stage gestures. Irene Dunne starts the picture in subdued fashion but ends up as over the top as everyone else, she's been much better elsewhere. Same goes for Florence Eldridge, a very fine actress usually though she's overblown in this.
Full of actresses of note for one reason or another. Besides Myrna and Irene there is Jill Esmond, first wife of Laurence Olivier, Kay Johnson, a DeMille favorite and the mother of respected character actor James Cromwell and Peg Entwistle, the infamous and tragic actress who threw herself from the Hollywood sign in despair a few days after this film premiered, it's her only film credit. Except for the two leading ladies each only get a scene or two to make an impression.
Fun in a ludicrous way but aside from the cast this is a routine, if outlandish, programmer that were it not for them would be utter forgotten.
- jjnxn-1
- Jun 15, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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