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The film was in production during Mary Astor's bitter divorce proceedings over her affair with dramatist George S. Kaufman. She kept a diary, and her husband threatened to have intimate details of the affair read into evidence at the divorce proceedings and in their child-custody battle.
Dodsworth: Directed by William Wyler. With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor. A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
- (10K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1936-09-23
May 31, 2020 · Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston), a self-made millionaire, has decided to retire, sell his company and, at the insistence of his wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton), take a trip to Europe. While the thought of retirement leaves him gloomy, Sam says he is looking forward to the experience.
he had been married for 20 years to 40-ish wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton), youth-obsessed, vain, social-climbing and self-centered, and had lived in the small Ohio town of Zenith with her; she was continually afraid of growing old.
Feb 22, 2008 · “I want a new life, all over from the very beginning.” In this adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel, Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy mid-Western industrialist who sells his auto plant and travels abroad with his restless but shallow wife.
Overview. A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. William Wyler. Director. Sinclair Lewis.
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The shallow, unsatisfied, age-fearing and restless wife (43 year-old Ruth Chatterton, replacing Fay Bainter from the stage production, and in one of her last US feature films before appearing in TV roles) was married to a homespun, prosperous, self-made millionaire (Oscar-nominated Walter Huston).
