RKO classic romances
2019
DVD
Millie is a grand melodrama about a divorcee (Helen Twelvetrees) who climbs the ranks at a luxe hotel, and whose tattered romantic relationships drive her to a life of independence.
Item Details
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr., 25 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- videodisc
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: Classic romances
Notes:
- Millie based on the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke.
- Kept husbands based on the novel by Louis Sarecky.
- The woman between based on the novel by Irving Kaye Davis.
- Originally produced as motion pictures in 1930-1931.
- Kino Classics and Lobster Films are proud to present five pre-code love stories from RKO Radio Pictures in the RKO classic romances collection. Preserved by the Library of Congress and restored by Lobster Film, these are tearjerkers that will tug every last heartstring.
- Millie: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, James Hall, John Halliday, Joan Blondell, Anita Louise, Edmund Breese, Frank McHugh.
- Kept husbands: Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, Clara Kimball Young, Ned Sparks, Mary Carr, Robert McWade, Bryant Washburn, Freeman Wood.
- The lady refuses: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery, Margaret Livingston, Ian Lebedeff, Edgar Norton.
- The woman between: Lili Damita, Anita Louise, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, O.P. Heggie, Ruth Weston, Lincoln Stedman.
- Sin takes a holiday: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Zasu Pitts, Kendell Lee, Murrel Finley.
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; 2.0 stereo; aspect ratio (1.33 : 1).
- Home use only.
- English with optional English SDH subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Contents:
- disc 1. Millie / Radio Pictures presents ; a Chas. R. Rogers production ; directed by John Francis Dillon ; produced by Chas. R. Rogers ; adaptation and continuity, Chas. Kenyon. (85 min. ; 1931); Kept husbands / Radio Pictures presents ; directed by Lloyd Bacon ; produced by William LeBaron ; adaptation and dialogue by Forrest Halsey and Alfred Jackson. (76 min. ; 1931)
- disc 2. The lady refuses / Radio Pictures presents ; director, George Archainbaud ; produced by William LeBaron ; screen play by Wallace Smith. (72 min. ; 1931); The woman between / Radio Pictures presents ; directed by Victor Schertzinger ; produced by William LeBaron ; adaptation and dialogue, Howard Estabrook. (73 min. ; 1931); Sin takes a holiday / Pathé presents ; produced by E.B. Derr ; directed by Paul L. Stein ; screen play by Horace Jackson. (72 minutes ; 1930).
Publisher or Distributor Number: 12335210
Control Number: 2905660
UPC:
- 738329236854
- 738329236854
Subjects:
- Adultery -- Drama.
- Fortune hunters -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Rich people -- Drama.
- Spouses -- Drama.
- Stepmothers -- Drama.
Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Romance films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Ames, Robert, 1889-1931, actor.
- Archainbaud, George, 1890-1959, film director.
- Bacon, Lloyd, 1890-1955, film director.
- Bennett, Constance, 1904-1965, actor.
- Compson, Betty, 1897-1974, actor.
- Damita, Lily, actor.
- Darrow, John, 1907-1980, actor.
- Dillon, John Francis, film director.
- Kino Classics (Firm), publisher.
- Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.
- Lobster Films (Firm), restorationist, presenter.
- MacKenna, Kenneth, 1899-1962, actor.
- Mackaill, Dorothy, 1903-1990, actor.
- McCrea, Joel, 1905-1990, actor.
- RKO-Pathe, production company.
- Radio Pictures, production company.
- Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967.
- Schertzinger, Victor, film director.
- Stein, Paul L., 1891-1952, film director.
- Twelvetrees, Helen, 1908-1958, actor.
- Vail, Lester, 1899-1959, actor.