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Merrily We Go to Hell is a 1932 pre-Code film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney. The supporting cast features a prominent early appearance by Cary Grant, billed ninth in the cast but with a larger part than this would suggest.
Merrily We Go to Hell: Directed by Dorothy Arzner. With Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher. A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
- (2K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Dorothy Arzner
- 1932-06-10
Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and Sylvia Sidney turn in extraordinary performances as an urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye, leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage.
- Joan
Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily (...) is a scathing early-feminist commentary on modern marriage.
- (76)
- English
- comedy
- Spirit Entertainment
May 18, 2021 · Dorothy Arzner’s tenth film is a romantic pre-code drama about love and open marriage. In director Dorothy Arzner’s last film at Paramount, Merrily We Go to Hell, pretty heiress Joan (Sylvia Sidney) falls for heavy-drinking reporter Jerry (Fredric March).
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania. Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss.
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A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
