Captive (1932)

Awards
- 4 wins total

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Joan Crawford

Letty Lynton

Robert Montgomery

Jerry Darrow

Nils Asther

Emile Renaul

Lewis Stone

District Attorney Haney

May Robson

Mrs. Lynton, Letty's Mothers

Louise Closser Hale

Miranda, Letty's Maid

Emma Dunn

Mrs. Darrow, Jerry's Mother

Walter Walker

Mr. Darrow, Jerry's Father

William Pawley

Hennessey

Sidney Bracey

Waiter
(uncredited)

June Brown

Edward LeSaint

Dr. Sanders
(uncredited)

Edgar Norton

Darrow's Butler
(uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Dennis, Darrow's Chauffeur
(uncredited)

C. Montague Shaw

Ship's Officer at Christmas Party
(uncredited)

Harry Stubbs

Ship's Steward
(uncredited)

Charles Williams

Reporter
(uncredited)

Director
- Clarence Brown
Writers
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Long unreleased (and it's still hard to find a decent print), and thus notorious, "Letty Lynton" does not quite live up to this notoriety. It does have a great ending, the kind of pre-code ending that makes you want to sit up and clap, and a hard-to-watch scene of Joan Crawford being slapped around by a man, but otherwise it's an undistinguished story, unimaginatively presented. **1/2 out of 4.

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Trivia
This film, one of the seminal works of the pre-Code era, has been unavailable commercially since January 17, 1936, when a federal court ruled that MGM's script too closely resembled the play "Dishonored Lady" without having acquired the rights or given proper screen credit. The play, written by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes for leading lady Katharine Cornell, opened on Broadway at the Empire Theatre on April 30, 1930, running for 127 performances. The U.S. copyright of the play will expire in 2025.