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Strangers May Kiss
Production: January 5, 1931 - February 5, 1931;
Premiere: Not Available;
Released: April 4, 1931;
Production/Distribution Companies: Metro Goldwyn Mayer/Loew's Inc.;
Runtime: 77, 85, or 87 min;
Country: USA;
Language: English;
Color: Black and White;
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Sound System);
Not available on VHS or DVD;;
Cast: Norma Shearer as Lisbeth Corbin; Robert Montgomery as Steve; Neil Hamilton as Alan Harlow; Marjorie Rambeau as Geneva Sterling; Irene Rich as Celia; Hale Hamilton as Andrew Corbin; Conchita Montenegro as Spanish dancer; Jed Prouty as Harry Evans; Albert Conti as De Bazan; Henry Armetta as a Waiter; George Davis as a Waiter; André Cheron as the Room service waiter; Raymond Milland as the young man at roulette table; Chris-Pin Martin as the Mexican man at hotel;
Production Credits:
Produced by: Irving Thalberg; George Fitzmaurice;
Directed by: George Fitzmaurice;
Writer: John Meehan;
Gowns by: Adrian;
Editing: Hugh Wynn;
Reviews:
Creighton Peet in Outlook, March 25, 1931: "George Fitzmaurice has made a brisk and good looking entertainment which goes on its way so gracefully that it leaves little time in examining structural weaknesses in the story and characterizations. Norma Shearer interprets the modern young woman of the piece with all her customary charm and intelligence."
Motion Picture, May 1931: "We girls' love problems have been gone into pretty thoroughly in the past six months, but Norma Shearer's sufferings undoubtedly make the best of the lot. There is something a little forced and melodramatic in Miss Shearer's extreme abandon- but her sufferings are cannily calculated to enthrall the feminine movie audience."
Photoplay, May 1931: "This is Norma Shearer's first picture since she has become a mother and it's her finest picture to date. That's going some, as The Divorcee won many of the honors that were floating around last year, but Ursula Parrott develops her characters more logically and Norma's work in some scenes is superb. Rarely has one been as gorgeous as our Norma while treading the primrose path."
Notes/Trivia:
-Norma was impatience to get back on the screen after having a child. She needed Adrian's reassurance that her figure was trim as ever. Whatever her secret was, Norma looked phenomenal.
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