Her Private Life | |
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Directed by | Alexander Korda |
Screenplay by | Forrest Halsey |
Based on | Déclassée by Zoë Akins |
Produced by | Ned Marin |
Starring | Billie Dove Walter Pidgeon Holmes Herbert Montagu Love |
Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
Edited by | Harold Young |
Music by | Cecil Copping Alois Reiser |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Her Private Life is a surviving [1] 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon and Holmes Herbert. The plot concerns an English aristocrat who causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American. The film had been considered a lost film. [2] However, in July 2016, according to the Library of Congress, the film was found in an Italian archive.
This was Korda's second sound film, following The Squall . It is a remake of the 1925 silent film Déclassée by Robert G. Vignola, which was itself an adaptation of a 1919 play of the same name by Zoë Akins. [3]
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