The Silver Cord is a 1933 American pre-Code film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1926 Broadway play The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard that starred Laura Hope Crews as an overly possessive mother.
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| Directed by | John Cromwell |
| Screenplay by | Jane Murfin |
| Based on | The Silver Cord 1926 play by Sidney Howard |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman Merian C. Cooper |
| Starring | Irene Dunne Laura Hope Crews Joel McCrea |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
| Edited by | George Nicholls, Jr. |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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
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Cast
edit- Irene Dunne as Christina Phelps
- Joel McCrea as David Phelps
- Laura Hope Crews as Mrs. Phelps
- Eric Linden as Robert Phelps
- Frances Dee as Hester
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- Helen Cromwell as Delia
- Paul Irving as Taxicab Driver
- Perry Ivins as Phelps Family Doctor
- Reinhold Pasch as Lab Technician
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as German Doctor
Production
editDirector 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- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 by The American Film Institute (1993)
- ^ The Silver Cord as produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, December 20, 1926, to March 1927, IBDb.com; accessed July 27, 2015.
- ^ 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
External
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- The Silver Cord at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- The Silver Cord at the TCM Movie Database
- The Silver Cord at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- 1946 Theatre Guild on the Air radio adaptation of original play at Internet Archive
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