Sylvia Sidney
Joan Prentice
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Merrily We Go to Hell. 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
Merrily We Go to Hell. Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit—a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era.
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Merrily We Go to Hell joins a subset of pre-Code films in which open marriage or the double standard regarding sex are part of the storyline. In films such as Party Husband (1931), The Divorcee (1930), Ex-Lady (1933) and Illicit (1931), husbands and wives openly commit adultery under the noses of their partners without moral judgement passed on ...
- Dorothy Arzner
- Sylvia Sidney
Jun 14, 2021 · The 1932 movie, starring Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March, challenges the happy ending of marriage in Hollywood. It depicts the dangers of alcoholism, infidelity and social expectations for women in a witty and ambiguous way.
- Pamela Hutchinson
May 15, 2021 · A romantic comedy-drama about a journalist (Frederic March) and a socialite (Sylvia Sidney) who fall in love and face his alcoholism and infidelity. The film, directed by Dorothy Arzner, is a Criterion Blu-ray release with a new 4K restoration and a commentary track.
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A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued by an heiress, Joan Prentice, who helps him write a play, but he relapses into alcoholism. The film is directed by Edwin Justus Mayer and written by Dorothy Arzner.
