The Dark Angel (1935)
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Samuel Goldwyn's The Dark Angel is a sumptuously produced soap opera with a poignant "Enoch Arden" style denouement. Fredric March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star respectively as Alan Trent, Kitty Vane and Gerald Shannon, friends since childhood. Though Gerald is deeply in love… More Samuel Goldwyn's The Dark Angel is a sumptuously produced soap opera with a poignant "Enoch Arden" style denouement. Fredric March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star respectively as Alan Trent, Kitty Vane and Gerald Shannon, friends since childhood. Though Gerald is deeply in love with Kitty, it is Alan who wins her hand in marriage. But before the wedding can take place, WW I intervenes, and both Alan and Gerald march off with their regiments. Blinded on the battlefield, Alan gallantly pretends to have been killed so that Kitty will not feel obligated to care for him. Eventually, however, she discovers that he's still alive, which leads to the film's most memorable scene, in which the proud Alan painstakingly arranges all the furniture and bric-and-brac in his room to make it seem as though he can still see. Though the film is set in the late teens and early '20s, Merle Oberon is garbed throughout in the latest 1935 fashions -- an endearingly anachronistic Sam Goldwyn trademark. Oscar nominations went to star Oberon and art director Richard Day, with the latter taking home the gold statuette. Adapted by Lillian Hellman and Mordaunt Sharp from a stage play by Guy Bolton (written pseudonymously as H. B. Treveleyen), The Dark Angel was previously filmed by Goldwyn in 1925. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sidney Franklin
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 5, 1935 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Merle Oberon received her only Oscar nomination for this well acted but sentimental romantic melodrama.
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Cast
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Fredric March
as Alan Trent
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Merle Oberon
as Kitty Vane
- Carl Voss
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David Torrence
as Mr. Shannon
- Charles Tannen
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C. Montague Shaw
as Train Passenger
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Vesey O'Davoren
as Voices at Station
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John Miltern
as Mr. Vane
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Herbert Marshall
as Gerald Shannon
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Murdock MacQuarrie
as Waiter at Inn
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Claude King
as Sir Mordaunt
- Clare Verdera
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Douglas Walton
as Roulston
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Francis Palmer Tilton
as Chauffeur
- Doris Stone
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Albert Russell
as Innkeeper
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Harold Howard
as Jarvis The Station Attendant
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Douglas Gordon
as Porter at Station
- Roy Darmour
- Louise M. Bates
- Tom Moore
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Colin Campbell
as Vicar
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George Breakston
as Joe
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Colin Kenny
as Officers at Station
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Frieda Inescort
as Ann West
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Henrietta Crosman
as Granny Vane
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Edward Cooper
as Martin the Butler
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Cora Sue Collins
as Kitty as a child
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Phyllis Coghlan
as Shannon Maide
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Fay Chaldecott
as Betty
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Denis Chaldecott
as Ginger
- Robert Carleton
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Jimmy Butler
as Gerald as a Child
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Janet Beecher
as Mrs. Shannon
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Jimmy Baxter
as Alan as a child
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Philip Dare
as Men in Dormitory
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Gunnis Davis
as News Vendor at Station
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Olaf Hytten
as Mills
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Holmes Herbert
as Major in Dugout
- Sam Harris
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John Halliday
as Sir George Barton
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Robert Hale
as Orderly in Dugout
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Lawrence Grant
as Mr. Tanner
- Bud Geary
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Sarah Edwards
as Mrs. Bidley
- Vernon P. Downing
- Jack Deery
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Claud Allister
as Lawrence Bidley
