This Modern Age

Infobox Film
name = This Modern Age


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director = Nick Grinde
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writer = Story:
Mildred Cram
Dialogue:
Sylvia Thalberg
Frank Butler
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starring = Joan Crawford
Pauline Frederick
Neil Hamilton
music =
cinematography = Charles Rosher
editing = William LeVanway
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = flagicon|USA 29 August 1931
runtime = 68 min.
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0022478

"This Modern Age" (1931) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, and Pauline Frederick in a story about a socialite who is reunited with her mother after a long separation. The film was based upon the story "Girl's Together" by Mildred Cram and was directed by Nick Grinde.

Plot and cast

Socialite Valentine Winters (Crawford) is a child of divorced parents and has not seen her mother (Frederick) in years. She travels to Paris for a reunion. There, Valentine meets fun-loving Tony (Monroe Owsley), and is rescued from his overturned car by football-playing Harvardian Bob (Hamilton). Bob and Valentine fall in love, and, when he invites his parents (Hobart Bosworth and Emma Dunn) to meet her, everything goes wrong. Valentine has a heart-to-heart talk with her mother and the two achieve a new closeness and understanding. Eventually, Bob and Valentine are united. Cast includes Albert Conti.

Reception

Mordaunt Hall in the "New York Times" commented, " [The film] glides along merrily most of the time, but now and again it has its off moments...Nicholas Grinde, [the director] has done splendid work by his comedy, but his serious interludes might have been handled more effectively." [Quirk, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.]

ee also

* Joan Crawford filmography

References