La femme aux gardénias

Original title: Double Harness

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William Powell and Ann Harding in La femme aux gardénias (1933)

A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

Director
- John Cromwell
Writers
- Jane Murfin
- Edward Poor Montgomery
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6.7/10

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Director
- John Cromwell
Writers
- Jane Murfin
- Edward Poor Montgomery
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins total

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Ann Harding

Joan Colby

William Powell

John Fletcher

Lucile Browne

Valerie Colby

Henry Stephenson

Colonel Sam Colby

Lilian Bond

Monica Paige

George Meeker

Dennis Moore

Reginald Owen

Freeman

Kay Hammond

Eleanor Weston

Leigh Allen

Leonard Weston

Hugh Huntley

Farley Drake

Wallis Clark

Postmaster General

Fred Santley

Bruno
(as Fredric Santley)

Irving Bacon

Crab Counterman
(uncredited)

Lita Chevret

Brunette Mannequin
(uncredited)

Wong Chung

Chinese Cook
(uncredited)

Jean Malin

Fritz Schitz
(uncredited)

Director
- John Cromwell
Writers
- Jane Murfin
- Edward Poor Montgomery
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Trivia
This film hadn't been shown for decades and was found in a Merian C. Cooper collection that had been used for television. A 2½-minute sequence that had been cut from the print was located in a French negative discovered in the National Center for Cinematography in France and restored to the print. The brief segment had been cut for television because it indicated that the characters of Joan Colby and John Fletcher were having pre-marital sex.

Goofs
Lilian Bond's character "Monica Paige" has name misspelled in newspaper headline and caption "Mrs. Monica Page Returns".

Quotes
Valerie Colby: But how can you even think of marrying him if you don't love him?
Joan Colby: Love? Marriage has nothing to do with love. Marriage is a business - at least, it's a woman's business. And love is an emotion. A man doesn't let emotion interfere with *his* business, and if more women would learn not to let emotion interfere with *theirs*, fewer of them would end up in the divorce court.

Connections
Featured in TCM: Twenty Classic Moments (2014)

Soundtracks
Bridal Chorus
(uncredited)
from "Lohengrin"
Composed by Richard Wagner
[Played in the opening scene at the dress boutique]

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8/10

Ann Harding rocks!

Just saw this on TCM and I have to say I was floored by Harding's performance, who I saw here for the first time. It takes real talent to act in melodramatic scenes and deliver them so naturally that the viewer never questions your authenticity. Harding adds hundreds of little touches - a gesture here, an eye movement there, that make her performance show you what natural acting is all about. In fact, she makes everyone else pale by comparison - Powell is his usual charming self, but next to Harding he comes off as a typical Hollywood performer. And talk about sophistication! Harding has to be the ultimate in "cool". I can only guess the reason she didn't become as big as Hepburn or Davis is that she didn't fight for better films. I'll be sure to look for more of her work soon.