Her Private Life | |
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![]() Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love and Billie Dove | |
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 |
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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 sound (All-Talking) 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]
The song features a theme song entitled "Love Is Like A Rose" which was composed by Al Bryan and George W. Meyer. Walter Pidgeon sings this song in the film. The song is also played instrumentally as background music by the Vitaphone orchestra several times throughout the film.