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La femme aux gardénias

Titre original : Double Harness
  • 1933
  • Approved
  • 1h 9min
NOTE IMDb
6,7/10
1,4 k
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William Powell and Ann Harding in La femme aux gardénias (1933)
ComedyDrama

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

  • Réalisation
    • John Cromwell
  • Scénario
    • Jane Murfin
    • Edward Poor Montgomery
  • Casting principal
    • Ann Harding
    • William Powell
    • Lucile Browne
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,7/10
    1,4 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • John Cromwell
    • Scénario
      • Jane Murfin
      • Edward Poor Montgomery
    • Casting principal
      • Ann Harding
      • William Powell
      • Lucile Browne
    • 46avis d'utilisateurs
    • 12avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    • Récompenses
      • 3 victoires au total

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    Rôles principaux16

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    Ann Harding
    Ann Harding
    • Joan Colby
    William Powell
    William Powell
    • John Fletcher
    Lucile Browne
    Lucile Browne
    • Valerie Colby
    Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson
    • Colonel Sam Colby
    Lilian Bond
    Lilian Bond
    • Monica Paige
    George Meeker
    George Meeker
    • Dennis Moore
    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • Freeman
    Kay Hammond
    Kay Hammond
    • Eleanor Weston
    Leigh Allen
    • Leonard Weston
    Hugh Huntley
    • Farley Drake
    Wallis Clark
    Wallis Clark
    • Postmaster General
    Fred Santley
    Fred Santley
    • Bruno
    • (as Fredric Santley)
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Crab Counterman
    • (non crédité)
    Lita Chevret
    Lita Chevret
    • Brunette Mannequin
    • (non crédité)
    Wong Chung
    Wong Chung
    • Chinese Cook
    • (non crédité)
    Jean Malin
    • Fritz Schitz
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • John Cromwell
    • Scénario
      • Jane Murfin
      • Edward Poor Montgomery
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    Avis des utilisateurs46

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    mkilmer

    The story was okay...

    "He always has a drink," said my wife. She was speaking, of course, of William Powell's various characters, and I observed that he was always wealthy. Was he typecast? That is a question for seventy-years-ago; today, we just enjoy his work.

    And it starred William Powell. (Isn't that enough?) In DOUBLE HARNESS, Powell plays John Fletcher, a playboy millionaire who is targeted for marriage by Joan Colby (Ann Harding). She gets her man, and this turns out to be to his immediate benefit. She gets him interested in running the company he inherited, and with her help, he's quite successful at it. He's a savvy guy, but she's clearly the woman behind the successful man. (Yes, such a thing still exists, some seventy years after.) Joan's sister Valerie (Lucille Browne) is something of a ditz with spending proclivities beyond her means. This leads to a disaster of a sort, but it's nothing Joan cannot handle.

    The ending, which I shan't divulge, left me with a few questions, but the answers were not necessary and I was pleased with the film. William Powell fans, you don't want to miss the master at work.
    7planktonrules

    Not perfect, but a very interesting drama

    This is one of the "lost but found" films shown on TCM on 4/4/07. Apparently this and two other films shown that night were held out of public release due to litigation concerning royalties and now the powers that be at Turner Classic Movies have taken care of the licensing issues. Of the three films shown that night, none of them were great treasures but all three were excellent--very solid examples of the type of films RKO made during the era. Normally, when you think of RKO in 1933, you think KING KONG or Astaire and Rogers as a team, but there were other good films that might rank just below them in quality and entertainment.

    One of the big reasons I saw this film (aside from the fact that I am a major old movie junkie) is that it featured William Powell--one of my favorite old movie stars. While this WAS one of his movies, he was not exactly the same type of funny and sophisticated guy he later played in the Thin Man films or in LIBELED LADY. Instead, he was a rich playboy who was a little less likable, though he was honest enough to tell his girlfriend (plaed by Ann Harding) that he wanted to be a playboy and didn't want deep commitment. Ms. Harding, though a nice person, was determined to marry him so she concocts a plan to trick him into feeling he must marry her. She is successful, though afterwards her victory seems very hollow. How all this is deftly resolved is pretty clever and interesting and makes this film well worth seeing.

    The acting and writing are excellent despite this being a less than big budget sort of production. It's a good example of a "Pre-Code" film as topics such as adultery and premarital sex are actually discussed--something that would probably NOT been allowed after the new and strict Production Code was enacted in 1934-35. While the topics were NOT dealt with in a salacious manner, the adult aspects of this film make it pretty timeless and topical today.
    9Patriotlad@aol.com

    A Gem Of Social Satire From The Depths Of The Depression

    Once again, the big thinkers at Turner Classic Movies have provided film buffs with a tremendous cinematic coup, this being the re-release of six films crafted by Merian C. Cooper as executive producer, and tied up in litigation over the screening rights for decades. Among these films is the social satirical gem, "Double Harness," which is available from TCM via those cable TV providers who have TCM On Demand.

    The film is, therefore, free for viewing at the convenience of the customer and this one comes highly recommended.

    In all honesty, it was not until the very final scenes of this film, that I realized it was set in San Francisco ( and not New York ), and that the entire production was a satire. The beginning and middle sections of this movie -- from a play by Edward Poor Montgomery -- seem to fit nicely in the oh-so-predictable slot of "melodrama." Just about every player in this film is a character carved strictly out of "upper crust" marble, with all the trappings of the idle rich in the '30s.

    Not that the idle rich in the Depression years had it so good, of course, as they apparently had to cut back on the caviar before dinner at least once in a while. The alert film buff will realize that this story is strictly from "la la land" in the first scenes, where the two sisters Colby are viewing bridal dresses for the younger one, Valerie, who is about to be married. The bill for her trousseau comes to well over $ 3000 at a time when $ 100 per week was a lot of money for a family of four. And by the way, everybody smokes ... a lot.

    Everyone in this movie is fabulously wealthy by the standards of the day, even though their interests are under pressure from the economic turbulence of 1931-1932. Losses from a bank failure are mentioned in passing in one scene, but the audience cannot help but be captivated by the opulence of the lives of these characters. This film also serves to further establish the absolute brilliance of William Powell, who is the lazy playboy named John Fletcher, heir to a shipping line.

    Powell seems to play his character with an almost sublime restraint, and a barely concealed exuberance: it is as if he knew in his subconscious mind that this was an "Ann Harding" picture and it was his duty to bolster her performance and her presence. He does so, in the most magnificent fashion, and it adds power to the social satire which is the weave of this cinematic fabric. It all comes together at the end, where a most elaborate private dinner party collapses into a drunken disaster for the younger sister, and a fist-fight for the butler and the cook !! And there's a happy ending, too, of course.

    The only thing this film lacked was more ... more of the luminous Ann Harding, more of how she was slowly capturing the real man inside the phony, shallow playboy Fletcher, and more of how William Powell brought that character into reality from a stiff and rather formal screenplay, the kind of "very talkative" cinematic fiction so common in that era.

    Nine of ten, and since it can be viewed for free, On Demand, it is highly recommended to any and all film buffs.
    9antonio-21

    Stars' Charisma & Director's Talents Lead the Way!!

    Ann Harding and William Powell are terrific in this strange little gem of a movie which runs the gamut from Pre-Code Drama to Screwball Comedy! (the closing dinner party scene is worth the price of admission). John Cromwell directs with a sure hand, especially in a great tracking shot involving the two sisters.

    It's incredible how modern films seem to lack any sense of sophistication and style in comparison with even lesser known films from the 30's like this one.

    A pure joy to watch.
    8filmfun

    Quite witty & charming.

    Really well done adaptation of the play to the screen. Rather wordy as was most early 1930's films, but quite charming nevertheless. And, indeed, rather risque for its day since there is a supposition at one point that Ann Harding's character, Joan, in trying to trap William Powell into marriage, is giving pre-marital favors and is actually caught in the process. The chemistry between Harding and Powell is quite good and it is unfortunate that the two were never paired again in another film.

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    • Anecdotes
      This film hadn't been shown for decades and was found in a Merian C. Cooper collection that had been used for television. A 2½-minute sequence that had been cut from the print was located in a French negative discovered in the National Center for Cinematography in France and restored to the print. The brief segment had been cut for television because it indicated that the characters of Joan Colby and John Fletcher were having pre-marital sex.
    • Gaffes
      Lilian Bond's character "Monica Paige" has name misspelled in newspaper headline and caption "Mrs. Monica Page Returns".
    • Citations

      Valerie Colby: But how can you even think of marrying him if you don't love him?

      Joan Colby: Love? Marriage has nothing to do with love. Marriage is a business - at least, it's a woman's business. And love is an emotion. A man doesn't let emotion interfere with *his* business, and if more women would learn not to let emotion interfere with *theirs*, fewer of them would end up in the divorce court.

    • Connexions
      Featured in TCM: Twenty Classic Moments (2014)
    • Bandes originales
      Bridal Chorus
      (uncredited)

      from "Lohengrin"

      Composed by Richard Wagner

      [Played in the opening scene at the dress boutique]

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 1 mars 1935 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Site officiel
      • Full movie
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Double Harness
    • Lieux de tournage
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(Studio)
    • Société de production
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • Budget
      • 329 000 $US (estimé)
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    • Durée
      1 heure 9 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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