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Merrily We Go to Hell is a 1932 pre-Code film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney. The supporting cast features a prominent early appearance by Cary Grant, billed ninth in the cast but with a larger part than this would suggest.
Merrily We Go to Hell: Directed by Dorothy Arzner. With Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher. A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Dorothy Arzner
- 1932-06-10
Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and Sylvia Sidney turn in extraordinary performances as an urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye, leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage.
- Joan
In Merrily We Go to Hell, Sylvia Sidney stars as Joan Prentice in a showy role that garnered her critical recognition early in her career. The daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, Joan is a sweet-natured innocent who meets working-class reporter Jerry Corbett at a hedonistic penthouse party.
- Dorothy Arzner
- Sylvia Sidney
Overview. A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania. Dorothy Arzner. Director. Edwin Justus Mayer. Screenplay.
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