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The Marriage Playground: Directed by Lothar Mendes. With Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon. A husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together.
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- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Lothar Mendes
- 1929-12-13
The Marriage Playground is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes, and written by Doris Anderson, J. Walter Ruben, and Edith Wharton. The film stars Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon, Kay Francis, William Austin, Seena Owen and Gene Raymond.
Directed by Lothar Mendes. Based on “The Children,” a novel by Edith Wharton. Screenplay by J. Walter Ruben. Dialogue by Doris Anderson. Camera by Victor Milner. A Paramount Picture. Released December 13, 1929. About the film:
The audience of The Marriage Playground can put no more faith in Martin and Judy's marital endurance than they can in the commitment of the transformed Wheaters. The 1990 adaptation, on the other hand, remains absolutely faithful to the pain of the novel's ending. Ben Kingsley's Martin desperately blunders by broaching the subject of marriage with
Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out. Cast. Crew.
- Lothar Mendes
- Paramount
Film Details. Genre. Drama. Release Date. Dec 21, 1929. Premiere Information. not available. Production Company. Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. Country. United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the novel The Children by Edith Wharton (New York, 1928). Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 10m. Sound. Mono (Western Electric Sound System), Silent.
Novel. J. Walter Ruben. Writer. Doris Anderson. Writer. A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
