Charming Sinners

"Charming Sinners" is another high society philandering movie which I can't relate to. The perpetrators and the victims are too socialized and sophisticated to say or do anything mean so they continue to put on airs as though nothing is wrong. I guess I'm working class through and through because I can't politely address cheating.

The cheaters were Robert Miles (Clive Brook) and Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan). The victims were Kathryn Miles (Ruth Chatterton) and George Whitley (Montagu Love). The movie was set in London, but they all spoke like posh New-Englanders to me. Maybe stuffy sounding accents are universal from England to America.

Kathryn knew her husband was cheating on her with her friend Anne-Marie, yet she feigned ignorance and prevented her other friends from informing her about their affair. Why? I have no idea. I can only surmise that it would've been too common to have such business openly stated. As for George, Anne-Marie's husband, he was totally ignorant and Kathryn--yes Kathryn--made sure he remained ignorant.

Yes, you read that correctly. Kathryn's husband was cheating with George's wife and Kathryn kept that fact hidden from George, and I have no idea what it all meant except high society unwritten rules or high society's understanding of how to deal with infidelity.

Karl (William Powell) was an old friend of Kathryn's who was still madly in love with her after ten years. Kathryn wanted to use Karl to make Robert jealous, but that ploy didn't work.

This movie was too polite, too pretentious, too fake, and too terrible.

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