Search results
Recently retired auto magnate Samuel Dodsworth and his narcissistic wife Fran, while on a grand European tour, discover that they want very different things out of life, straining their marriage.
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
Apr 1, 2013 · Ruth Chatterton gives a devastating performance as Dodsworth’s upwardly mobile wife Fran. Throughout the film we discover that she was 14 or 15 when the two were married (which is why, although they have been married for twenty years and have a grown daughter, she is only 35 years old.)
Feb 22, 2008 · In what is one of the harshest and cruelest scenes in Hollywood melodramas, the Baroness tells Fran that in addition to the problem of religion and that she is divorce, Kurt must have children to carry on the family line, and Fran would simply be an “old wife of a young husband.”
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.
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).
People also ask
Is Dodsworth based on a true story?
Is Dodsworth a good movie?
Who is Samuel Dodsworth in 'Auld Lang Syne'?
Did Sam Dodsworth re-release a Sinclar Lewis movie in 1946?
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
