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Lady with a Past (1932)
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19 February 1932 (USA) morePlot:
A wealthy, proper society girl finds that she's much more popular with men when she pretends to be a "bad" girl. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Gorgeous Constance Bennett, Breezy Ben Lyon moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Constance Bennett | ... | Venice Muir |
 | Ben Lyon | ... | Guy Bryson |
| David Manners | ... | Donnie Wainwright |
| Don Alvarado | ... | Carlos Santiagos |
| Albert Conti | ... | Rene - Viscomte de la Thernardier |
| Merna Kennedy | ... | Ann Duryea |
| Astrid Allwyn | ... | Lola Goadby |
| Don Dillaway | ... | Jerry |
| Blanche Friderici | ... | Nora (as Blanche Frederici) |
| John Roche | ... | Carl Howe |
| Cornelius Keefe | ... | Spaulding |
| Nella Walker | ... | Aunt Emma |
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Mono (RCA Photophone System)Fun Stuff
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What a surprising delight this film is. Constance Bennett plays a rich wallflower who just can't get the guys in her set interested. She's also has a crush on boozy and shallow David Manners. One night when he is drunk he asks her to marry him and meet him on a boat to Europe the next morning. Of course he sobers up, and she ends up going alone.
In Paris Bennett meets a charming and broke guy (Ben Lyon)whom she hires as her "gigolo" so that he can show her around and meet people. Lyon hits on the idea of making up stories about her "past" so that men will be interested. They get along great and their plan is wildly successful until a surprising event occurs.
Bennett is quite good underplaying her sympathetic role. Lyon is terrific as the cynical but honest guy. Manners is also good as the callous boozer. Cast also includes Nella Walker, Albert Conti, Astrid Allwyn, Don Alvarado, Blanche Frederici, Bruce Cabot, and Merna Kennedy.
The ending is quite a surprise.