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  1. Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee Director: John Cromwell Writer: W. Somerset Maugham (Novel) In this Pre-Code Hollywood melodrama, a young man's quest to win the love of a cold ...

  2. Of Human Bondage (Romance, 1934) with Bette Davis & Leslie Howard | Cinema. ⭐️CCC is the first stop for cult film freaks, mad movie misfits, cinema aficionados, and all round tv...

  3. Of Human Bondage is a 1934 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star.The screenplay by L...

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    Sensitive, club-footedartist Philip Carey is a Briton who has been studying painting in Paris for four years. His art teacher tells him his work lacks talent, so he returns to London to become a medical doctor, but his moodiness and chronic self-doubt make it difficult for him to keep up in his schoolwork. Philip falls passionately in love with tea...

    In 1932, director Michael Curtiz showed Cromwell a print of his recently completed film The Cabin in the Cotton because Cromwell was interested in casting its leading man, Richard Barthelmess, in a project he was preparing. Instead of Barthelmess, Cromwell's attention was drawn to Bette Davis, whose portrayal of a femme fatale brought to mind the s...

    Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times said the Maugham novel "has come through the operation of being transferred to the screen in an unexpectedly healthy fashion. It may not possess any great dramatic strength, but the very lifelike quality of the story and the marked authenticity of its atmosphere cause the spectators to hang on every word uttered ...

    In James Baldwin's 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, protagonist John Grimes sees Of Human Bondage in cinema. The movie title is never revealed but the tagline "There’s a fool like him in every family — and a woman next door to take him over"is mentioned and the plotline is described in detail over three pages in the first chapter of the novel...

    In 1962, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Consequently, there are numerous DVD and online streaming copies available. WarnerMedia is the current owner of the bulk of the RKO library and a UK DVD was issued in 2003 by Warner Home...

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    1. Brown, Gene (1995). Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry from Its Beginnings to the Present (1st ed.). New York City: Wiley. p. 119. ISBN 0-02-860429-6. 2. Canham, Kingsley. 1976. The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 5: King Vidor, John Cromwell, Mervyn LeRoy. The Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0-498-01689-7

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  4. Review. The clubfooted aspirant painter Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) is advised by an acquaintance to give-up his artistic ambition since he is a mediocre artist. He joins the medical school in London using his inheritance to pay the school and to have a comfortable life.

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    • Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
    • John Cromwell
    • 1934-07-20
  5. OF HUMAN BONDAGE (RKO Radio, 1934), directed by John Cromwell, stars Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in the first screen treatment from the 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

  6. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, this drama follows Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), an English medical student who abandons his artistic aspirations when he falls for Mildred Rogers (Bette...

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