The Silver Cord (film)
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.
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Directed by | John Cromwell |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman Merian C. Cooper |
Written by | Sidney Howard (play The Silver Cord) Jane Murfin (screenplay) |
Starring | Irene Dunne Laura Hope Crews Joel McCrea |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
Edited by | George Nicholls, Jr. |
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]
Cast
- Irene Dunne - Christina Phelps
- Joel McCrea - David Phelps
- Laura Hope Crews - Mrs. Phelps
- Eric Linden - Robert Phelps
- Frances Dee - Hester
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- Helen Cromwell - Delia
- Paul Irving - Taxicab Driver
- Perry Ivins - Phelps Family Doctor
- Reinhold Pasch - Lab Technician
- Gustav von Seyffertitz - German Doctor
References
- 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.
External
- The Silver Cord on IMDb
- The Silver Cord at AllMovie
- 1946 Theatre Guild on the Air radio adaptation of original play at Internet Archive
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