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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 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 .
March followed The Marriage Playground up with Sarah and Son (1930), a Ruth Chatterton mega-hit which mirrored the long-suffering mother roles which Kay later acquired herself at Warner Bros. Anita Louise, who later became a very popular supporting actor in films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), later worked with Kay in My Bill , playing her ungrateful daughter.
Edith Wharton. 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.
Thus, after recently seeing unmatched-wearer-of-ornate-apparel Kay Francis opposite a twinning Fredric March in Strangers in Love, I became morbidly curious about the other Lothar Mendes-helmed flick that featured both actors (albeit with Kay in a relatively minor role), an early-talkie adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Children, rechristened The Marriage Playground.
Joyce and Cliffe Wheater, a much-divorced American couple, leave their seven children to fend for themselves as they tour the smart resorts of Europe.
"The Marriage Playground" is an interesting film. While it is a Pre-Code film (since it came out before July, 1934), its sentiments are both Pre-Code AND Production Code at the same time. While Production Code films almost never talked about divorce in this sanitized version of Hollywood, poor behavior was nearly always punished.
