An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
Barry O'Moore
- Mr. Welland
- (as Herbert Yost)
Lowden Adams
- Jenkins
- (uncredited)
Muriel Barr
- Miss Allison - Jenkins' Daughter
- (uncredited)
Harry Beresford
- Museum Guard
- (uncredited)
Lynn Browning
- Miss Archer
- (uncredited)
Herbert Bunston
- W.J. Letterblair
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Child's Mother
- (uncredited)
Alf James
- Man Who Comes with Chairs
- (uncredited)
John Merton
- John
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe original Broadway production starred Katharine Cornell as Ellen Olenska, and Franchot Tone as Newland Archer.
- GoofsAs evidenced by a dated letter, Newland assisted Ellen with her divorce case in August 1879. Newland and May were married just after the following Easter, which would make it 1879. After returning from their honeymoon, they receive an invitation for a party on Wednesday, October 2nd. That would be correct if it was still 1878, but in 1879, October 2nd was a Thursday.
- Quotes
Julius Beaufort: After all your exquisite associations over there, how do you think you're going to like it here?
Ellen: I think it quite like heaven.
Julius Beaufort: Yes, I have that feeling too sometimes. You mean, just some place to go after you're dead?
- ConnectionsReferences All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- SoundtracksNone But the Lonely Heart
(1869) (uncredited)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Played during the opening credits and often as background music
Featured review
adaptation of Edith Wharton novel
This "Age of Innocence" from 1934, of course, cannot even approach the sumptuous beauty.amazing acting, and rich story-telling of the Martin Scorsese "Age of Innocence" from 1993 starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
The 1934 movie stars Irene Dunne as Ellen, John Boles as Newland, and Julie Haydon as May.
The story is told in flashback by the elderly Newland. As a young attorney in the late 1800s, he was engaged to May when her cousin Ellen came to visit from Europe. She plans to divorce her husband and is a social outcast, as these things were never done. Newland and Ellen fall in love. Do they defy convention and marry? Or does Newland marry May as promised?
Irene Dunne is lovely as Ellen. She was an actress who could do comedy and drama. John Boles was a huge star and not a tremendous actor. That kind of look was considered attractive way back when; today it has gone out of style.
There are good performances, but there is no way to watch this film after seeing the Scorsese film. It is studio-made, looks dull, and is dull. This is a story with a great deal of depth that seems untouched here -- lots going on underneath all the gentility, the trap of conventions -- here told as an ordinary story.
Helen Westley is wonderful as the cousins' grandmother, as is Laura Hope Crews as Dunne's aunt and May's mother. Lionel Atwill is also on hand as a married man who is a friend of Dunne's, an unacceptable situation.
The novel was also adapted into a play, on Broadway starring Katherine Cornell as Ellen and Franchot Tone as Newland.
If you haven't seen the stunning Scorsese film, see it.
The 1934 movie stars Irene Dunne as Ellen, John Boles as Newland, and Julie Haydon as May.
The story is told in flashback by the elderly Newland. As a young attorney in the late 1800s, he was engaged to May when her cousin Ellen came to visit from Europe. She plans to divorce her husband and is a social outcast, as these things were never done. Newland and Ellen fall in love. Do they defy convention and marry? Or does Newland marry May as promised?
Irene Dunne is lovely as Ellen. She was an actress who could do comedy and drama. John Boles was a huge star and not a tremendous actor. That kind of look was considered attractive way back when; today it has gone out of style.
There are good performances, but there is no way to watch this film after seeing the Scorsese film. It is studio-made, looks dull, and is dull. This is a story with a great deal of depth that seems untouched here -- lots going on underneath all the gentility, the trap of conventions -- here told as an ordinary story.
Helen Westley is wonderful as the cousins' grandmother, as is Laura Hope Crews as Dunne's aunt and May's mother. Lionel Atwill is also on hand as a married man who is a friend of Dunne's, an unacceptable situation.
The novel was also adapted into a play, on Broadway starring Katherine Cornell as Ellen and Franchot Tone as Newland.
If you haven't seen the stunning Scorsese film, see it.
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- La edad de la inocencia
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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