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The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy in Holland during WW2, although she is suspected of having cooperated with and taken help from the Nazis. Colonel Pieter Deventer of Dutch Intelligence agrees that she may train to join a team in the resistance movement. The team starts to suffer heavy losses after she has joined them. Is she a traitor?
Ruth Chatterton ... Caroline Grannard
George Brent ... Julian Tierney
Bette Davis ... Malbro
John Miljan ... Greg Grannard
Adrienne Dore ... Allison Adair
John Wray ... Clark Davis
Robert Warwick ... The Doctor
Walter Walker ... Dante
Virginia Hammond ... Flo
Berton Churchill ... Judge Bradshaw
Director: Alfred E. Green
Runtime: 71 mins
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023394/
Codecs:
Video : 632 MB, 1245 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 640*480 (4:3), DX50 = DivXNetworks Divx v5,
Audio : 66 MB, 130 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3, VBR,
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Where in the world did the screenwriters come up with such a first name? It is attached to the flirty character very well played by Bette Davis.
Ruth Chatterton was always good. She and Davis are both rich (though exactly what the origin of the axiom in the title is, I\'m not sure.) She is married to an insufferable stuffed shirt. George Brent is also interested in her. Why she wants to stay with her husband is unclear. It\'s not as if he\'s faithful.
Chatterton is not well served by the film. She is costumed and made up in a highly unflattering way. Superb film actress though she was, even in 1932, she was no spring chicken. And the movie is filmed in a way that accents this.
The situations are a tiny bit racy but don\'t accept an ooh-la-la sort of pre-Code movie. It\'s a drawing room comedy of a second- or third-tier. Davis\'s character\'s name is probably the most memorable thing about it.
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Almost silly plot but the three stars are very good. Ruth Chatterton plays the \"richest woman in America\" who has had a string of bad marriages but is being romanced by novelist George Brent. He is pursued by \"the pest of Park Avenue,\" Bette Davis. Chatterton loses current husband (John Miljan) to gold digging Adrienne Dore.
Chatterton runs off to Paris for a divorce while Davis pursues Brent. Brent goes to Paris after the divorce but Chatterton can\'t make up her mind. He goes to Romania! Back in New York, Chatterton learns that the new wife is pregnant and that Brent and Davis are an item. Wrong on both counts. Things come to a head when Chatterton learns Brent is planning a year in China to write. That settles it.
The next morning the trampy wife can\'t wait to break the news of the evening\'s romance but Davis decks her and throws her out of her house. The old husband and trampy wife crash into a tree on their way back to town. She croaks but the mangled husband is calling out for Chatterton......
Total drivel but entertaining because of some snappy dialog and three tops stars.
Berton Churchill, Sam McDaniel, Cecil Cunningham, Walter Walker, Virginia Hammond co-star......
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Although the film reads as a fairly typical marriage / divorce romance film, Bette Davis stands out as a feisty third wheel to George Brent and Ruth Chatterton. She is at her most playful and spirited in the scene in Brent\'s apartment before he leaves for Europe. Wonderful stuff.
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