Her Private Affair

1929
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1h 10min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueHer Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Ph... Tout lireHer Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system.Her Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system.

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This was Ann Harding's second film. In the movie, she is married to her real life husband, actor Harry Bannister. They were married in 1926 and later divorced in 1932. Bannister was 13 years older than Harding. Harding and Bannister also starred together in The Girl of the Golden West (1930). Before their movie careers, they were prominent actors in Pittsburgh theatre, appearing in productions with the Sharp Company and the Nixon Players. Harding also performed on Broadway, making her Broadway debut in 'Like A King' when she was only 19 years old.

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Although the gun which kills Hartmann is clearly an automatic pistol, in the courtroom scene, it is frequently referred to as a 'revolver'.

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Vera Kessler: Well, do you - do you want to give me my letters now - or must I pay Cash On Delivery?
Arnold Hartmann: You needn't quite make me out a blackmailer.
Vera Kessler: I don't blame you for thinking me a fool after the way I behaved in Italy. But, I'm not altogether an idiot. You asked for a loan, you hinted at a threat. There was really no mistaking what you meant.

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6/10

Anyway, a different look at Ann

I'm so fond of Ann Harding, one of the early talkies' most revered actresses at the time, and now, sadly, virtually forgotten. She had a certain stillness and contemplativeness rare for the time, and usually she's so subtle, yet so expressive. But not in this rickety filmed play, where, for the only time I've ever seen, she overacts. But then, Vera, her character, has so much to overact about. Facing marital discord with her eminent judge husband (Harry Bannister, married to Harding at the time), she went off to holiday in Italy and became involved, though not to the point of Doing It, with a rotter lothario. Now, back in Vienna, he wants blackmail money, and she ends up unintentionally murdering him. The contrivances and coincidences just pile up: She just happened to leave an opera ("Carmen," which we see a bit of; Pathe appears to have spent some money on this one) to see the rotter as some friends were trying to run into her during intermission, and the man accused of the murder just happens to have her husband as the judge, and she convinces her faithful lawyer friend (John Loder, rather dashing) to defend him (before his good friend the judge her husband), but he never suspects a thing, and she just happens to faint on hearing the verdict, and the cleared suspect just happens to be her waiter on New Year's Eve, and her husband just happens to overhear a vital conversation between her and the suspect, and on and on until the end. Fairly ridiculous, but entertaining, and while I prefer the subdued Ann Harding, this hyper one's fun to watch.