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A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.8K
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- Director
- Writers
- Melchior Lengyel(play "Angyal")
- Guy Bolton(adaptation: English play)
- Russell G. Medcraft(adaptation: English play)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- Melchior Lengyel(play "Angyal")
- Guy Bolton(adaptation: English play)
- Russell G. Medcraft(adaptation: English play)
- Stars
Videos1
Leonard Carey
- Barker's Footmanas Barker's Footman
- (uncredited)
Louise Carter
- Flower Womanas Flower Woman
- (uncredited)
Phyllis Coghlan
- Maria's Maidas Maria's Maid
- (uncredited)
Duci De Kerekjarto
- Violinistas Violinist
- (uncredited)
Bobbie Hale
- News Vendoras News Vendor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Melchior Lengyel(play "Angyal")
- Guy Bolton(adaptation: English play)
- Russell G. Medcraft(adaptation: English play)
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Storyline
Lord Frederick Barker is the British representative to the League of Nations. Current geopolitical tensions, which could lead to war if not dealt with, have him preoccupied with work, he more often than not feeling the need to deal with issues rather than delegate them to subordinates. As such, his wife, Lady Maria Barker, is feeling neglected, Frederick, totally devoted to and in love with his wife, unaware of her feelings. While he is in Geneva for work, she secretly flies to Paris under an assumed name to deal with her emotions with her old friend, the Grand Duchess Anna Dmitrievna formerly of Russia, the only person in Paris who knows her true identity. The Grand Duchess' general role in her social circle is to facilitate good times for others, with unspoken discretion. It is at the Grand Duchess' salon that Maria meets playboy Anthony Halton. While spending the evening together, Maria and Tony fall in love with each other, with Maria, under the circumstances, refusing to divulge her name or her situation to him, and thus neither using any names for each other except what he ends up calling her: his Angel. Maria promises to make up her mind if there is a future for them if she shows up the following Wednesday at 5pm back at the Grand Duchess' salon, the intervening time which she will spend back in London with Frederick to evaluate the situation and her feelings. Complicating matters is that Tony and Frederick were casual acquaintances during the Great War, they who have just reconnected and become friends in their mutual admiration for each other. Thus, the question becomes who, if anyone, will show up at the Grand Duchess' salon at the appointed time. —Huggo
- Taglines
- SHE MET HIM IN PARIS...AND SNUBBED HIM IN LONDON...for this time her HUSBAND WAS ALONG! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Palace Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - March 9, 1938) -
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- Approved
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Did you know
- TriviaParamount paid $8,500 for Melchior Lengyel's play. The film length was gradually cut from 2916.94m (11 reels) to 2478.33m (nine reels) after pre-release showings in New York City and six California cities from 25 July 1937 to 13 September 1937.
- Quotes
Maria: What's worrying you? France?
Sir Frederick: No. Yugoslavia. Dear, I hope you don't mind, I...
Maria: Oh, that's alright, dear. I understand. I understand perfectly.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Le cinéma passe à table (2005)
- SoundtracksAngel
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Friedrich Hollaender
Lyrics by Leo Robin
Played during the opening and end credits
Played on violin by Duci De Kerekjarto (as Duci Kerekjarto)
Played on piano by Marlene Dietrich and by Melvyn Douglas
Played as background music often
Top review
Marlene Dietrich more irresistible than ever making fools of two men
This is one of Ernst Lubitsch's less conspicuous films, while the performance of Marlene Dietrich in it is the more outstanding. Herbert Marshall is all right, he played against her before in "Blonde Venus" four years earlier, he was a jealous husband even there, but that was Josef con Sternberg, while Ernst Lubitsch is a completely different thing, although both are Viennese, and Marlene Dietrich is German. Melvyn Douglas is the tricky thing here. He makes a perfectly abominable offensive character insisting on constantly importuning on her, and you can't understand how she can tolerate it, but Marlene is Marlene, always superior to any critical situation, and also here she finally provides a solution, but not without the clever psychological empathy with her on the part of Herbert Marshall. Both Melvyn and Herbert appear, however, as perfect dummies at her side, while she makes the entire film worth while and watching. It's very European, while poor Melvyn keeps blundering on without noticing anything of the subtleties going on. She enters as a mystery of an intrigue, but when she has solved the knot she is already gone.
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- clanciai
- Feb 25, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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