Norma Shearer
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Strange Interlude is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the 1928 play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill.
- $1.2 million
- Robert Z. Leonard, Irving Thalberg
- $654,000
Strange Interlude: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan. After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
- (783)
- Drama
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1933-07-01
Strange Interlude was adapted by Hollywood only once, in 1932. The MGM film, which starred Norma Shearer as Nina Leeds and Clark Gable as Dr. Ned Darrell, was a shortened and toned-down version of the play. Voiceovers were used for the soliloquies.
- January 30, 1928
- Eugene O'Neill
Strange Interlude (1932) was a commercially risky venture, the story of neurotic Nina Leeds, whose first love is killed in World War I. She copes with her grief by marrying, but her husband's impotence drives her into the arms of a doctor, and she bears his child.
- Robert Z. Leonard, Earl Taggart
- Norma Shearer
Strange Interlude Released Dec 30, 1932 1 hr. 50 min. Drama List Reviews 30% 50+ Ratings Audience Score Nina Leeds (Norma Shearer) loses the love of her life when he is killed in World War I.
- (78)
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Norma Shearer
- December 30, 1932
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Summaries. After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his. The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts.
