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 with Kitty,… 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

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By: Sidney Franklin
Genres: Drama, Romance, Classics

In Theaters: Sep 5, 1935 Wide

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Cast

            Fredric March as Alan Trent

            Merle Oberon as Kitty Vane

            Carl Voss
            
            David Torrence as Mr. Shannon

            Charles Tannen
            
            C. Montague Shaw as Train Passenger

            Vesey O'Davoren as Voices at Station

            John Miltern as Mr. Vane

            Herbert Marshall as Gerald Shannon

            Murdock MacQuarrie as Waiter at Inn

            Claude King as Sir Mordaunt

            Clare Verdera
            
            Douglas Walton as Roulston

            Francis Palmer Tilton as Chauffeur

            Doris Stone
            
            Albert Russell as Innkeeper

            Harold Howard as Jarvis The Station Attendant

            Douglas Gordon as Porter at Station

            Roy Darmour
            
            Louise M. Bates
            
            Tom Moore
            
            Colin Campbell as Vicar

            George Breakston as Joe

            Colin Kenny as Officers at Station

            Frieda Inescort as Ann West

            Henrietta Crosman as Granny Vane

            Edward Cooper as Martin the Butler

            Cora Sue Collins as Kitty as a child

            Phyllis Coghlan as Shannon Maide

            Fay Chaldecott as Betty

            Denis Chaldecott as Ginger

            Robert Carleton
            
            Jimmy Butler as Gerald as a Child

            Janet Beecher as Mrs. Shannon

            Jimmy Baxter as Alan as a child

            Philip Dare as Men in Dormitory

            Gunnis Davis as News Vendor at Station

            Olaf Hytten as Mills

            Holmes Herbert as Major in Dugout

            Sam Harris
            
            John Halliday as Sir George Barton

            Robert Hale as Orderly in Dugout

            Lawrence Grant as Mr. Tanner

            Bud Geary
            
            Sarah Edwards as Mrs. Bidley

            Vernon P. Downing
            
            Jack Deery
            
            Claud Allister as Lawrence Bidley
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