Saturday, 1 February 2014

Enchanted April (1935 Harry Beaumont)

Substantively the same story as we've more recently been used to, this feels like it's more than a few miles away.


Ann Harding is the free spirit with Shop around the Corner's Frank Morgan as her author / husband, and Katharine Alexander and Reginald Owen, Jane Baxter and Jessie Ralph (known to us for giving Nick a hard time in After the Thin Man), and Ralph Forbes as the somewhat strange host.

A studio set RKO production scored by Roy Webb and shot by Edward Cronjager it at least benefits from concision (66 minutes). Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel 'The Enchanted April' was converted first into a Broadway play.

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