Two White Arms

1932 film

  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Margaret Bannerman
  • Claud Allister
Cinematography
  • Henry W. Gerrard
  • Henry Harris
Edited by
  • Helen Thomas
  • Lars Moen
Production
company
Eric Hakim Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • March 1932 (1932-03)
Running time
81 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Two White Arms, also known as Wives Beware, is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Fred Niblo and starring Adolphe Menjou, Margaret Bannerman and Claud Allister.[1] It is adapted from a play by Harold Dearden.

Produced by Eric Hakim Productions and backed by MGM, the film was produced at Wembley Studios.[2] It was Bannerman's first 'talkie'.[3]

Premise

A man tires of married life and feigns the loss of his memory so he can pursue other women.

Cast

  • Adolphe Menjou as Major Carey Liston
  • Margaret Bannerman as Lydie Charrington
  • Claud Allister as Doctor Biggash
  • Jane Baxter as Alison Drury
  • Kenneth Kove as Bob Russell
  • Ellis Jeffreys as Lady Ellerslie
  • René Ray as Trixie
  • Jean Cadell as Mrs Drury
  • Henry Wenman as Mears
  • Spencer Trevor as Sir George
  • Melville Cooper as Mack

Trivia

On 6 June 1933, Wives Beware was shown at the Camden Drive-In Theater in Pennsauken, New Jersey, making it the first film shown at a fully dedicated drive-in theater.[4]

References

  1. ^ Two White Arms (1932). BFI. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Angleterre". Ciné Magazine (in French), Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1932, p. 61a.
  3. ^ "The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, (P. 13c)". 2 December 1931. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. ^ "CinemaTreasures.org: Camden Drive-In". Retrieved 22 January 2020.

External links

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