Ex-Lady

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Bette Davis and Gene Raymond in Ex-Lady (1933)

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

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6.4/10

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Bette Davis

Helen Bauer

Gene Raymond

Don Peterson

Frank McHugh

Hugo Van Hugh

Monroe Owsley

Nick Malvyn

Claire Dodd

Iris Van Hugh

Kay Strozzi

Peggy Smith

Ferdinand Gottschalk

Herbert Smith

Alphonse Ethier

Adolphe Bauer

Bodil Rosing

Mrs. Bauer

George Beranger

Dinner Guest
(uncredited)
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Edna Callahan

Blonde at Painting Exhibition
(uncredited)

Maxine Cantway

Hat Check Girl
(uncredited)

Armand Kaliz

Man Flirting with Iris
(uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Butler
(uncredited)

Hedwiga Reicher

Vocalist at Dinner Party
(uncredited)

Gay Seabrook

Miss Seymour
(uncredited)

Billy West

Panhandler
(uncredited)

Renee Whitney

Party Guest
(uncredited)

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- Robert Florey
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Trivia
In 1962, producer-director Robert Aldrich was preparing the prologue to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). He chose a scene from Parachute Jumper (1933) and this film to document the fact that the young Jane was a flop as a movie star.

Goofs
In the last scene, when Don speaks his final line to Helen, his lips do not move. The audio was obviously added after filming ended.

Quotes
Hugo Van Hugh: Love, and life, and laughter!

Connections
Featured in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Soundtracks
Why Can't This Night Go On Forever?
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Music by Isham Jones
Played during the opening credits and often in the score

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7/10

When parents interfere

Bette Davis is a free-spirited, cool-as-a-cucumber commercial artists who keeps rebuffing marriage proposals from her boyfriend, the owner of an advertising agency. Why? Because she thinks marriage will lose its spark. Complacency and boredom will settle in, and then what. Bette's character eventually relents, but her reservations prove accurate. Gene Raymond plays the love interest, and he's quite good, a character who is serious and has gravitas.

The cast includes Frank McHugh as a stuffed shirt seemingly oblivious to the attentions of his gorgeous wife, played by Claire Dodd. Monroe Owsley and Kay Strozzi also give good turns as glamorous society types who come between Davis and Raymond. Ex-Lady is not so much sexually suggestive as sexually obvious. Even by pre-code standards, not much is left to the imagination. Bette Davis looks beautiful; cinematographer Tony Gaudio captures her ethereal beauty, something Warner Brothers boss Jack Warner failed to appreciate. Clocking in at 67 minutes, Ex-Lady doesn't overstay its welcome.