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La fine della signora Cheyney

Titolo originale: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
  • 1937
  • Approved
  • 1h 38min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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Joan Crawford, William Powell, and Robert Montgomery in La fine della signora Cheyney (1937)
Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaTwo English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.

  • Regia
    • Richard Boleslawski
    • Dorothy Arzner
    • George Fitzmaurice
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Leon Gordon
    • Samson Raphaelson
    • Monckton Hoffe
  • Star
    • Robert Montgomery
    • Joan Crawford
    • William Powell
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,4/10
    1774
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Richard Boleslawski
      • Dorothy Arzner
      • George Fitzmaurice
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Leon Gordon
      • Samson Raphaelson
      • Monckton Hoffe
    • Star
      • Robert Montgomery
      • Joan Crawford
      • William Powell
    • 46Recensioni degli utenti
    • 10Recensioni della critica
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    Robert Montgomery
    Robert Montgomery
    • Lord Arthur Dilling
    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Fay Cheyney
    William Powell
    William Powell
    • Charles
    Frank Morgan
    Frank Morgan
    • Lord Francis Kelton
    Jessie Ralph
    Jessie Ralph
    • Duchess
    Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce
    • Willie Wynton
    Phyllis Clare
    Phyllis Clare
    • Joan
    • (as Colleen Clare)
    Benita Hume
    Benita Hume
    • Kitty Wynton
    Ralph Forbes
    Ralph Forbes
    • Cousin John
    Aileen Pringle
    Aileen Pringle
    • Lady Maria Frinton
    Melville Cooper
    Melville Cooper
    • William
    Leonard Carey
    Leonard Carey
    • Ames
    Sara Haden
    Sara Haden
    • Anna
    Lumsden Hare
    Lumsden Hare
    • Inspector Witherspoon
    Wallis Clark
    Wallis Clark
    • George
    Barnett Parker
    Barnett Parker
    • Purser
    William Bailey
    William Bailey
    • Ship Passenger
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Wilson Benge
    Wilson Benge
    • Butler
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Richard Boleslawski
      • Dorothy Arzner
      • George Fitzmaurice
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Leon Gordon
      • Samson Raphaelson
      • Monckton Hoffe
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    7bkoganbing

    Not All She Claims

    Joan Crawford in doing The Last of Mrs. Cheyney had to stand comparison with not one, but two previous actresses who essayed the part of a crooked adventuress who discovers she has a chance at love.

    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney was first presented on Broadway as a play by Frederick Lonsdale in the 1925-1926 season and it ran 385 performances with Ina Claire in the lead. Then it was done as an early sound feature film for Norma Shearer who got rave reviews.

    Not having seen Claire or Shearer in the part I only have Crawford to judge and she doesn't do badly at all in the part. Of course she and the film are helped greatly by the fact William Powell and Robert Montgomery are in the film and both can and have played this kind of light comedy in their sleep.

    Crawford is the shill, the come-on, for a gang of thieves of which William Powell is one of the members. She's taken on the identity of wealthy sophisticated American widow Faye Cheyney who ingratiates herself with the rich and famous and gets in their homes to rob them. We find her first working her wiles on shipboard with Frank Morgan, playing the usual befuddled Frank Morgan part. Powell serves as her 'butler'. But she also meets wealthy young Lord, Robert Montgomery and through him gets invited to old dowager Duchess Jessie Ralph's for the weekend.

    Jessie's got a big rock there that the gang would like to get a hold of. But Montgomery is offering Crawford a chance to break away from that life and it puts her in a dilemma. Since Powell's kind of stuck on her too, she's got another problem.

    I think Crawford carried off the part quite well. But the best one in the film is Jessie Ralph. Seems as though the old duchess married into the aristocracy and she spots that Crawford is not all she claims she is. But she likes her nonetheless. Very similar to the part Florence Bates played in Saratoga Trunk with Ingrid Bergman. Ralph steals every scene she's in.

    One of these days I met get to see the Shearer version. Till then I'll recommend this version of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney without hesitation.
    EightyProof45

    Charming Tour-de-Force for the Stars

    Many earlier reviewers have said the Crawford was "mis-cast" as Mrs. Cheyney. I have to disagree. It is not her best performance (for her best acting, see her small but scene-stealing role in The Women and for a Crawford feast, see her Oscar-winning turn in Mildred Pierce), but it is far from her worst. The blame cannot be entirely placed on Crawford either. Nor can it be placed on the director. It must be placed on the production code administrators who sheared Hollywood scripts after 1934, cutting out anything considered "risqué." The original play by Fredric Lonsdale is a surprisingly hilarious and fresh send-up of the class sytem in England. Butler and footmen who are actually thieves in disguise get to act veddy propper and then (when the guests leave) get to drop their phony apparel. Its really quite funny. In the play, when Crawford's would-be suitor catches her at robbery, he forces her to spend a night in the closet with him. This was wonderfully handled in the 1929 Norma Shearer original of this picture. But the production code said that thieves had to always be punished, and sexual actions could not be forced or blackmailed. Thus, this is an extremely bowdlerized version of the play. It is interesting to watch the stars interplay, and I'm a bit surprised that it flopped so largely in 1937. Seeing some of the junk that goes over big nowadays, one would think that with a cast like this and high production values, it would have at least made its mark. See the Norma Shearer version, if you can find it. Unfortunately, its very rare (there is a laser disc version of it on The Dawn of Sound Volume III), but totally worth it. It is risqué and hilarious. Or see Trouble In Paradise, another early pre-Code comedy about jewel thieves, who in that film, don't have to face punishment for their actions.
    6krorie

    Hopefully this is the last of Mrs. Cheyney

    What a wonderful cast. Some of the best Thespians of the 1930's or any decade for that matter. William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Nigel Bruce, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph, Melville Cooper, to name the main ones. Then what went wrong? The answer is in the weak script and ho-hum direction. Based on a play, the movie is stagy, much too talky. There is little wit nor many clever lines in the wordy script. So all the viewer has left is a bunch of good actors talking themselves to death and putting the audience to sleep in the process. The script is also predictable.

    The plot is actually a good one. The charming and mysterious Mrs. Cheyney woos rich eligible bachelors and one not so eligible to gain their confidence so she and her accomplices can fleece them. Unfortunately Mrs. Cheyney falls for one of the eligible bachelors. Will she go through with the fleece? The answer lies in the last half of the film. Since Hollywood today is remaking so many movie classics that don't really need remaking, why not remake some of the movies such as this one that could use a good make over?

    As noted by critics there is a degree of miscasting involved as well. Joan Crawford just does not fit as an adventurer passing herself off as a social big-wig in England. William Power would have played Robert Montgomery's role better than the role assigned him. Robert Montgomery on the other hand is well suited for his role as is Nigel Bruce and the rest of the cast.

    Even if you are a fan of the stars of this fluff and an admirer of 1930's Hollywood cinema, you may still find this movie slow moving and hoping that this is truly the last of Mrs. Cheyney.
    5mauricebarringer

    The Last of Mrs.Cheyney was a major box office hit.

    I appreciate all the pro and con reviews from the knowledgeable and literate film buffs. However, I want to address the reviewers who stated that the film was a financial flop.

    This film cost $741,000 to produce and it made $1,800,000, which was a sizable profit back in 1937.
    7blanche-2

    Joan with both Powell and Montgomery

    Joan Crawford is a jewel thief trying to break into society in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," a 1937 film from MGM also starring William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Frank Morgan, and Jessie Ralph. It's a remake of a 1929 film which starred Norma Shearer. Crawford is a sophisticated and glamorous woman we first meet on board ship as she's maneuvering and flirting her way into the company of a society crowd. While doing so, she meets Lord Arthur Dilling (Robert Montgomery). He and Lord Kelton (Morgan) pursue her. Once in London, she wangles the one thing that she and her gang of thieves (led by William Powell as her butler) have been waiting for - an invitation to Lady Ebley's country home, and a crack at Lady Ebley's fabulous pearl necklace. All doesn't go as planned.

    Given the star power, the film has some interesting moments, but for the most part, it's played too straight. A lighter touch was needed. This is perhaps a directorial problem (there were several) or the fact that Joan Crawford was better at drama than at comedy, and William Powell better at comedy than at drama. Powell does a great job, but it isn't much of a role. Audiences probably left the theater disappointed - perhaps part of the reason the film flopped at the box office. He doesn't have a lot to play off of, and no chemistry with Crawford. Robert Montgomery is his usual self in one of those roles that fit him like a glove, but the star trio is too somber.

    Joan Crawford looks fabulous, and with a strong director who had a concept of the script, she would have been fine. She didn't have a grasp of playing comedy, but she was a hard worker who seemingly took direction well. It's a shame MGM spent all that money on what was a first-class production only to have it just lay an egg. Apparently some of the racier parts of the play version had to be left out due to the code. At times, the film drags.

    Several of the comments blamed Crawford, some the script, but I do believe with the right director, "The Last of Mrs. Cheney" could have been a lot better.

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      Myrna Loy originally was cast as Fay Cheyney, while Joan Crawford was cast in Parnell (1937). Because Crawford did not like her role in that film, she switched roles and films with Loy.
    • Blooper
      As the ocean liner carrying the cast passes the Statue of Liberty, the name on the bow is "Rotterdam". Later, it's referred to as "the Northampton", and even later, as the "S.S. Britain".
    • Citazioni

      Duchess of Ebley: Oh! So you think I never HAD a good time!

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      In the opening credits, the three leading stars' names are listed over a photograph of them.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
    • Colonne sonore
      For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
      (uncredited)

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      Sung a cappella by Frank Morgan on ship

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    • Data di uscita
      • 19 febbraio 1937 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • 741.000 USD (previsto)
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
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