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The Lady Lies

  • 1929
  • Passed
  • 1h 15min
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6.3/10
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Claudette Colbert and Walter Huston in The Lady Lies (1929)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaMuch to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.

  • Dirección
    • Hobart Henley
  • Guionistas
    • John Meehan
    • Garrett Fort
    • Mort Blumenstock
  • Elenco
    • Walter Huston
    • Claudette Colbert
    • Charles Ruggles
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.3/10
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    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Hobart Henley
    • Guionistas
      • John Meehan
      • Garrett Fort
      • Mort Blumenstock
    • Elenco
      • Walter Huston
      • Claudette Colbert
      • Charles Ruggles
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    • 3Opiniones de los críticos
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      • 3 premios ganados en total

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    Walter Huston
    Walter Huston
    • Robert Rossiter
    Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert
    • Joyce Roamer
    Charles Ruggles
    Charles Ruggles
    • Charlie Tayler
    Patricia Deering
    • Jo Rossiter
    Tom Brown
    Tom Brown
    • Bob Rossiter
    Betty Garde
    Betty Garde
    • Hilda Pearson
    Jean Dixon
    Jean Dixon
    • Ann Gardner
    Duncan Penwarden
    • Henry Tuttle
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    • Bernice Tuttle
    • Dirección
      • Hobart Henley
    • Guionistas
      • John Meehan
      • Garrett Fort
      • Mort Blumenstock
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    8AlsExGal

    An odd marriage of religion and the social register...

    ... is on display in this film as a kind of moral code, and it might seem strange to many modern audiences to see such a thing - it did to me. It's one thing to read about it in history books, it's another to see it demonstrated theatrically. I'll get back to that later.

    Robert Rossitor (Walter Huston) is a socially prominent guy and a well respected attorney with a lush of a pal who is always advising him against brunettes, and if it's 1929 and it's Paramount that drunken pal must be Charlie Ruggles, here playing Charlie Taylor. Rossitor is a widower and father to two children. At a local department store Rossitor is at the awkward task of buying a birthday present for his daughter. He is helped by sales clerk Joyce Roamer (Claudette Colbert) who helps give his gift the feminine touch Rossitor lacks. The two instantly click and the film fast forwards to two years later. Rossitor and Joyce have been enjoying a two year affair, but the topic of marriage is seldom brushed up against. It appears that Rossitor is paying for Joyce's apartment, because her digs are far too elegant to be paid for by a sales girl's salary. Charlie Taylor has set up part-time housekeeping next door as well, with blonde Hilda, whom he met in a bar and who basically set up the ground rules of their sugar-daddy relationship at their first meeting in a priceless precode discussion. Even though Joyce and Hilda look at their men quite differently, they have become best friends.

    The trouble begins when Rossitor's children come home from boarding school and his New England relatives - the Tuttles - visit for dinner. This is where we get into this weird religion of the social register. Patriarch Henry Tuttle has the tone of a thundering preacher, but his words are along the lines of - we know about your girlfriend, our family tree is that of a giant elm, her's is a common shrub, stay in your own forest, your happiness doesn't count. Rossitor tells uncle Henry off in private, then Henry has the nerve to wait until Rossitor leaves the house and poisons the children's' minds against Joyce sight unseen with his very unsocial gospel.

    When confronted with the fact that his children now know about Joyce and that they are dead set against any continuing relationship - even though they are all of twelve - Robert is now a double-minded man. He admits Joyce is a fine person, that she has shown him the only true happiness he's had since his wife died, yet he is a man beset with doubt as to whether or not he should break it off with Joyce and marry a woman he barely likes for the sake of appearances. How does this work out? Watch and find out. The performances here are quite natural for an early talkie, which is true for most Paramount talking films of that early sound era save the very first few that they made.

    As for the weird attitude toward working people as though they are trash by Robert's New England relatives, this attitude is called Calvinism and the popular thought among the well-to-do of New England at this time was that if God liked you he showed His good pleasure by making you and your family rich, if He didn't you were poor. And if God didn't like you, why should the rich cut you any slack? How quickly the problems with this philosophy showed themselves after the Great Depression made so many rich people poor just a year or so after this film was made.
    4wes-connors

    Getting Started with Claudette Colbert

    While buying a gift for his daughter, widower Walter Huston (as Robert Rossiter) finds French salesclerk Claudette Colbert (as Joyce Roamer) to be both pretty and helpful. Soon thereafter, a chance meeting leads to an over two year affair. Apparently succumbing to his snooty Massachusetts relatives, Mr. Huston decides not to marry below his station, and develops an "understanding" agreeable to Ms. Colbert. It couldn't be that Huston is listening to his perpetually drunk pal Charles Ruggles (as Charlie Tayler), who warns Huston to stay away from brunettes. Colbert is considered a "jezebel" among Huston's friends and relations.

    Becoming aware of their father's affair, teenage children Tom Brown (as Robert "Bob" Rossiter Jr.) and Patricia Deering (as Josephine "Jo" Rossiter) decide to meet Colbert, who shares a New York apartment with Huston. Young Mr. Brown telephones Colbert with dire health news. To turn the tables on the tricky kids, Colbert tells them she and Huston's upcoming trip to Europe is also going to be a honeymoon. But, it's just a cruise. This is how "The Lady Lies" gets its title. The film is probably most interesting as a chance to see the then stage actress Claudette Colbert in an early starring appearance (showing plenty of profile).

    **** The Lady Lies (9/21/29) Hobart Henley ~ Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Tom Brown, Charles Ruggles
    51930s_Time_Machine

    And Then There Were Three

    Although technically and artistically the production is advanced for 1929, its theme is shockingly archaic. Even us 1930s film fans don't get too much exposure to the attitudes of the 1920s so this will come as is a real culture shock. It's a rare snapshot into what was considered important in pre-depression America.

    This was made just a few months after Walter Huston's debut film, GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS but in terms of filmmaking its light years ahead. Compared with that earlier 'talker' this feels like it's made by professionals. It's no great classic but it's pretty good. In this Walter Huston (who was pretty awful in GOTP but now knows exactly how to act in a talking picture) plays an upper class widow who takes a shopgirl as his lover. Even though she is Claudette Colbert, not exactly your typical working class girl, that such a relationship could be anything more than a sugar daddy - gold digger situation is considered outrageous not just by his friends and snooty family but by her friends as well.

    Without revealing the plot, even Huston's and Colbert's characters consider it impossible that they could possibly be in love and certainly contemplating marriage would be about as likely as moving to the moon. I was surprised just how rigid the social structure was portrayed to be in America - it seemed as bad as ours here in England. A couple of years later however their social structure would change forever when The Depression would put people of all classes in the same boat. Whereas the 30s seems like a different world, the 20s were a different universe.

    The story is probably a little bit too removed from our lives to be that accessible to most of us today but certainly for 1929, it's remarkably well made (it's even got a musical score) so it's very watchable and entertaining. If you're interested in life in the 1920s, think that Walter Huston should have been President of the world or you're in love with Claudette Colbert, you will enjoy this.

    As to the title of this review - As all good Genesis fans will know, The Lady Lies is the best track on their 1978 album, And Then There Were Three.
    7Uriah43

    Surprisingly Good for an Early Talkie

    This charming movie begins with a wealthy widower by the name of "Robert Rossiter" (Walter Huston) going to a department store in search of a present for his 14-year-old daughter "Jo Rossiter" (Patricia Deering) who he has left with some relatives in Boston along with his son "Bob Rossiter" (Tom Brown). While in the department store, he meets a young sales lady named "Joyce Roamer" (Claudette Colbert) and the two fall in love almost immediately. The problem, however, is that neither his children nor his relatives like the idea of him living for two years with his lower-class companion and he is soon forced to make a choice that he has long since tried to avoid. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I didn't expect too much from this film mainly because of the fact that early talkies produced during this time typically have serious problems with picture quality, audio or overall acting. Surprisingly, made as, more often than not, there are problems with the film quality, audio or acting. Sometimes all three. Fortunately, that was not the case here, as both the picture and audio were quite adequate for the most part. And as far as the acting was concerned, I thought that Claudette Colbert performed in an excellent manner. Likewise, Charles Ruggles (as "Charlie Taylor") also performed quite well in a supporting role. Be that as it may, although it might be rather dated, I recommend this movie to those who might be interested, and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.
    5planktonrules

    Definitely pre-code...but also muddled and confusing.

    "The Lady Lies" is one of Claudette Colbert's first films and she's paired with Walter Huston in a rather confusing pre-code outing. When I say 'pre-code' I am referring to the era just before July, 1934...when films had all sorts of adult content which were essentially outlawed by the code. For example, the characters curse several times during the movie and the movie IMPLIES a lot...a hallmark of many pre-code pictures.

    As far as the plot goes, I think it's an example of a film which implies a lot without saying it...at least that's what I THINK was happening.

    Rich guy Robert Rossiter (Huston) is a widower whose two kids were sent away to boarding school. In the meantime, Robert meets a nice working girl, Joyce (Colbert) and they fall in love. However, Robert's straight-laced family don't approve. Why? Well, that's the vague part. It might just be because she's not from the fancy set and the family are snobs. But it might also be implying she's become Rossiter's mistress...with all that implies. But frankly...I don't know. If it's the former, everyone REALLY overracts to the romance. If it's the latter, they sure didn't make it clear...and this lack of clarity is why I didn't love the picture.

    Overall, an okay time-passer...that I really wanted to like more. And, while Huston and Colbert are very good, the actors playing the children are just awful...among the worst performances by child actors I can recall.

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    • Trivia
      One of the earliest of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Charlotte NC Monday 2 May 1960 on WSOC (Channel 9).
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      Charlie Tayler: Now, Hilda, you'll tell me the reason for getting me up in the middle of the night to come and have breakfast with you like this.

      Hilda Pearson: Oh, Daddy, I have sad news for you.

      Charlie Tayler: Oh, my goodness! What has Papa's little rustle of spring got to tell Papa?

      Hilda Pearson: You lost four thousand dollars on the market today.

      Charlie Tayler: Did you get me out of a nice warm bed to tell me that? How did this thing happen?

      Hilda Pearson: Well, I switched my account over to your brokers. I thought it would be kind of clubby. You know, your account and mine right next to each other.

      Charlie Tayler: Oh, that would be cosy and comfy wouldn't it? In other words, you mean that you're four thousand dollars short at my broker?

      Hilda Pearson: Yes, and if four grand aren't there by the time the market closes, they'll sell your baby right out. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you, Daddy?

      Charlie Tayler: Oh, no. Mamma knows Daddy wouldn't want that to happen. Tell me something, did you look me up in Bradstreet?

      Hilda Pearson: You bet your life I did.

      Charlie Tayler: And you found there was gold in them thar hills?

      Hilda Pearson: Oh, Daddy...!

      Charlie Tayler: Well do me a favour, don't try to get it all in one blad, will you?

    • Conexiones
      Alternate-language version of Une femme a menti (1930)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 21 de septiembre de 1929 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idiomas
      • Francés
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      • 女は嘘つき
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Kaufman Astoria Studios - 3412 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos("Long Island Studios")
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      • Paramount Pictures
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