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
A lawyer attempting to obtain a divorce for a countess finds his growing love resisted by THE AGE OF INNOCENCE in which they lived.
Edith Wharton's celebrated novel, illustrating how personal happiness is often crushed by public propriety, is given a fine adaptation in this well-produced film from Radio Pictures. While the movie relentlessly features almost nothing but dialogue, it is always sophisticated and deals with matters still of some importance.
In a movie with so much talk the performances are paramount and they are all of a high order. Lovely Irene Dunne is radiant as the American countess restricted by society from following her heart. John Boles is very effective as the lawyer who must also either bow to convention or be crushed by it. Feisty Helen Westley steals nearly every scene she's in as Dunne's wealthy and outspoken Granny. Laura Hope Crews is perfectly cast as Westley's slightly flustered daughter, the mother of Boles' pretty fiancée, Julie Haydon. Herbert Yost is Crews' meek little husband, while splendid Lionel Atwill enjoys himself as a rich rascal operating on society's fringe.
Movie mavens will recognize Harry Beresford as a canny museum guard and Inez Palange as a stubborn Italian maid, both uncredited.
The jazzy montage which opens the film has virtually no relationship to anything that follows and serves only to wake the audience up.
Edith Wharton's celebrated novel, illustrating how personal happiness is often crushed by public propriety, is given a fine adaptation in this well-produced film from Radio Pictures. While the movie relentlessly features almost nothing but dialogue, it is always sophisticated and deals with matters still of some importance.
In a movie with so much talk the performances are paramount and they are all of a high order. Lovely Irene Dunne is radiant as the American countess restricted by society from following her heart. John Boles is very effective as the lawyer who must also either bow to convention or be crushed by it. Feisty Helen Westley steals nearly every scene she's in as Dunne's wealthy and outspoken Granny. Laura Hope Crews is perfectly cast as Westley's slightly flustered daughter, the mother of Boles' pretty fiancée, Julie Haydon. Herbert Yost is Crews' meek little husband, while splendid Lionel Atwill enjoys himself as a rich rascal operating on society's fringe.
Movie mavens will recognize Harry Beresford as a canny museum guard and Inez Palange as a stubborn Italian maid, both uncredited.
The jazzy montage which opens the film has virtually no relationship to anything that follows and serves only to wake the audience up.
- Ron Oliver
- Oct 9, 2005
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- Also known as
- La edad de la inocencia
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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