Honor Among Lovers
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
Written by Austen Parker
1931/US
Paramount Pictures
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First viewing/Criterion Channel
“When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.” – Dorothy Arzner
This is ok but just that. Julia Traynor (Claudette Colbert) is a crack private secretary. Jerry Stafford (Fredric March) is her playboy boss. Jerry has a yen for Julia but she resists, only partly because of her loser boyfriend Philip Craig (Monroe Owsley).
One day Jerry asks Julia to join him for a round-the-world-cruise and accept a diamond bracelet she picked out for another of his flames. This shakes up Julia and she agrees to marry Philip.
After they marry, Philip loses his job and Jerry hires him as his financial assistant. Jerry doesn’t stop loving Julia and when Philip commits an impardonable crime she has a terrible dilemma. With Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers as comic relief.
I love these actors but the time or the script pulled really melodramatic acting out of them and made the movie less enjoyable than it may otherwise have been.
