Their Own Desire
1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film by E. Mason Hopper
- December 27, 1929 (1929-12-27)
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Their Own Desire is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, and Helene Millard. The film was adapted by James Forbes and Frances Marion from the novel[1] by Sarita Fuller; Lucille Newmark wrote the titles.[2] It is also the last MGM film in the 1920s. Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to herself for The Divorcee.
Premise
A young woman is upset by the knowledge that her father is divorcing her mother in order to marry another woman. Her own feelings change, however, when she falls in love with a young man who turns out to be the son of her father's new love.
Cast
- Norma Shearer as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
- Belle Bennett as Harriet Marlett
- Lewis Stone as Henry Marlett
- Robert Montgomery as John Douglas Cheever
- Helene Millard as Beth Cheever
- Cecil Cunningham as Aunt Caroline Elrick
- Henry Hebert as Uncle Nate Elrick
- Mary Doran as Suzanne Elrick
- June Nash as Mildred Elrick
- Joseph E. Bernard as Doctor (uncredited)
- Bess Flowers as Miriam, a Polo Player / Snooty Dinner Guest (uncredited)
- Isabelle Keith as Isabelle, a Polo Player / Snooty Dinner Guest (uncredited)
- Kane Richmond as Man at the Resort (uncredited)
- Oscar Rudolph as Man at the Resort (uncredited)
Production
The pool scenes in which John Cheever meets Lally Marlett for the first time were filmed at the Norconian Resort Supreme competition diving and swimming pools. While the diving boards and three diving platforms are long gone, the two Norconian pools are still intact, though worse for wear as of 2008, in the middle of what is now the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, California.
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
External links
- Their Own Desire at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Their Own Desire at the TCM Movie Database
- Their Own Desire at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Shearer vs. Shearer: The Divorcee (1930) and Their Own Desire (1929) with stills
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Films directed by E. Mason Hopper
- Tangled Skeins (1916)
- The Selfish Woman (1916)
- The Right Direction (1916)
- The Wax Model (1917)
- The Prison Without Walls (1917)
- The Spirit of Romance (1917)
- As Men Love (1917)
- The Tar Heel Warrior (1917)
- The Regenerates (1917)
- The Hidden Spring (1917)
- Wife or Country (1918)
- Her American Husband (1918)
- Come Again Smith (1919)
- Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921)
- All's Fair in Love (1921)
- Hold Your Horses (1921)
- Brothers Under the Skin (1922)
- The Glorious Fool (1922)
- Hungry Hearts (1922)
- Daddy (1923)
- The Love Piker (1923)
- The Great White Way (1924)
- Janice Meredith (1924)
- The Crowded Hour (1925)
- Paris at Midnight (1926)
- Up in Mabel's Room (1926)
- Almost a Lady (1926)
- The Wise Wife (1927)
- The Night Bride (1927)
- Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
- The Carnation Kid (1929)
- Wise Girls (1929)
- Their Own Desire (1929)
- Square Shoulders (1929)
- Her Mad Night (1932)
- Shop Angel (1932)
- Midnight Morals (1932)
- No Living Witness (1932)
- Sister to Judas (1932)
- Malay Nights (1932)
- Alias Mary Smith (1932)
- One Year Later (1933)
- Curtain at Eight (1933)
- Hong Kong Nights (1935)
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