Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaAn ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.
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- Prêmios
- 3 vitórias no total
- Wally Stuart
- (as Skeets Gallagher)
- Ambrose - Wally's Butler
- (não creditado)
- 'League of Nations' Heckler
- (não creditado)
- 'Answer That One' Heckler
- (não creditado)
- Man on Merry-Go-Round
- (não creditado)
- Monsieur Lavell - Party Guest
- (não creditado)
- Signor Martini - Party Guest
- (não creditado)
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (não creditado)
- Waiter
- (não creditado)
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (não creditado)
- Party Guest
- (não creditado)
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- Roteiristas
- Elenco e equipe completos
- Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro
Avaliações em destaque
A train passing through town slows and stops in front of her. Through the windows, she sees highlights of the high life, the life of the big city, promising wealth and romance. It is a wonderful scene. As a result, she makes her way to New York City, where she meets Mark Whitney (Clark Gable), a wealthy, unmarried attorney who immediately likes her no-nonsense honesty. They become involved, but he has no plans to marry her.
Crawford is vivacious and convincing in the role, showing a wide range of emotions. The film spotlights her beauty and her talent. In one scene, she sings in French, German and English. The song is "How Long Will it Last?"--an appropriate choice. The script is intelligent and the directing is clever and inventive.
There is only one section of the film that did not ring true, but it sets up a scene that is the dramatic climax of the film. As a whole, this film is well worth seeing.
A wonderful Joan Crawford film not to be confused with her second, completely unrelated, also wonderful movie of the same title (yes) from 1947. This one, to be sure, also stars Clark Gable, and it dates from the years when Gable and Crawford had an intermittent, steamy affair. The chemistry is good, the filming excellent (and sometimes breathtaking), and the overall story a lively pre-code, Depression-era tale of succeeding.
But success at what cost? That's the key. You love Crawford's rise, and her methods are sincere even if not as sweet and homespun as the first scene would imply. It's not that she's corrupted, but that she discovers the excitement of the big city, and the truth that there really is sincerity there as much as in the little town she came from.
Gable represents every girl's dream, of course. He's suave, warm, funny. And rich. Their interactions are natural throughout, and the pace lively (as most of the famous pre-Code films are).
The filming is excellent, including a somewhat famous long take of Crawford, near the beginning, watching a train slowly amble by as a parade of different scenes unfolds through each window. It's worth seeing just for that scene alone (if you like great cinematography, and the aura of old Hollywood).
Clarence Brown is the uncredited (!) director here, and he's terrific. See "A Free Soul" made at the same time for another (even better) film showing off his ability to make dialogs crisp and true. (He's more famous for his many movies with Garbo, but he did a slew with Crawford.)
If you think there is a predictability here, you're going to be partly wrong. See this one, not because it's a classic, but because it's very very good, and forgotten. You will have trouble finding a good version, however. The one I found was on iTunes and it was so terrible (harsh tones, highlights so washed out you couldn't see their faces in many scenes) I don't recommend it. (I wrote to complain and got a quick refund, an apology, and a promise to look into it. I don't know if that fixed the problem, however, in Spring 2014.) Anyway, find a good copy somehow. Do it.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThe first of two films with this title Joan Crawford appeared in. The second was Fogueira de Paixão (1947), for which she received an Oscar® nomination. This makes Crawford the only star to appear in two completely different films with identical titles.
- Citações
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: You don't own me. Nobody does. My life belongs to me.
Al Manning: You'll make one fine mess of it.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: It'll still belong to me.
Marian's mother: Don't, Marian, you frighten me when you talk like that.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland: If I were a man it wouldn't frighten you! You'd think it was right for me to go out and get anything I could out of life, and use anything I had to get it. Why should men be so different? All they've got are their brains and they're not afraid to use them. Well neither am I!
- ConexõesFeatured in MGM Greatest Moments: A Video Sampler (1987)
- Trilhas sonorasHow Long Will It Last?
(1931) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph Meyer
Lyrics by Max Lief
Sung by Joan Crawford in French, German and English
Played as part of the score throughout
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- Também conhecido como
- A Possuída
- Locações de filme
- Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA(Political Rally)
- Empresa de produção
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- Tempo de duração1 hora 16 minutos
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- Proporção
- 1.20 : 1