Her Private Life

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Her Private Life
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Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love and Billie Dove
Directed by Alexander Korda
Screenplay by Forrest Halsey
Based onDéclassée
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.
Release date
  • August 25, 1929 (1929-08-25)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

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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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Music

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.

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