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The Silver Cord (film)

January 01, 1970

The Silver Cord is a 1933 American pre-Code film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by John Cromwell, and based on a 1926 Broadway play, The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard, that starred Laura Hope Crews as an overly possessive mother.

The Silver Cord
Directed byJohn Cromwell
Screenplay byJane Murfin
Based onThe Silver Cord
1926 play
by Sidney Howard
Produced byPandro S. Berman
Merian C. Cooper
StarringIrene Dunne
Laura Hope Crews
Joel McCrea
CinematographyCharles Rosher
Edited byGeorge Nicholls, Jr.
Music byMax Steiner
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • May 5, 1933 (1933-05-05)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Crews reprises her domineering mother role in this film with Joel McCrea and Irene Dunne as her son and daughter-in-law. Another Hollywood film dealing with an overbearing mother figure was Broken Laws (1924), produced by and starring Dorothy Davenport.[1][2]

Plot edit

Cast edit

unbilled

  • Helen Cromwell - Delia
  • Paul Irving - Taxicab Driver
  • Perry Ivins - Phelps Family Doctor
  • Reinhold Pasch - Lab Technician
  • Gustav von Seyffertitz - German Doctor

Production edit

Director John Cromwell welcomed the opportunity to adapt The Silver Cord to the screen as he had directed Sidney Howard's play in its 1926 Broadway production. Film historian Kingsley Canham reports that Cromwell “felt that he could pull it off better than any other [film] director.” [3]

Joel McCrea and Frances Dee first met during filming, and would be married soon after in October 1933. They remained married for 57 years, until McCrea's death.

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 by The American Film Institute (1993)
  2. ^ The Silver Cord as produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, December 20 1926 to March 1927, IBDb.com; accessed July 27, 2015.
  3. ^ Canham, 1976 p. 65

References edit

  • Canham, Kingsley. 1976. The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 5: King Vidor, John Cromwell, Mervyn LeRoy. The Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0498016897

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