Week Eighty-One
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Ann was a dancer |
MOVIE NAME: ANTHONY ADVERSE
STUDIO: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
PRODUCER: HAL B. WALLIS and JACK L. WARNER
DIRECTOR: MERVYN LEROY
DATE: 1936
TYPE: HISTORICAL, ADVENTURE
CAST:
FREDERICK MARCH as Antony Adverse , OLIVIA DeHAVILLAND as Angela Guisseppi, DONALD WOODS as Vincent Nolte , EDMUND GWENN as John Bonnyfeather , CLAUDE RAINS as Don Luis , LOUIS HAYWARD as Denis Moore, GALE SONDERGAARD as Faith Paleologus , STEFFI DUNA as Neleta , AKIM TAMIROFF as Carlo Cibo, ANN BUPP, as a dancer
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY: In 1775, Petty nobleman Don Luis has married the beautiful Maria Bonnyfeather, but due to poor health has yet to consummate their marriage. While he is away to take a cure, Maria has an affair with the dashing Dennis Moore and becomes pregnant. Don Luis kills him in a duel and Maria dies during childbirth. The child is abandoned to a convent on St. Anthony's feastday. The nuns name him Anthony. Ten years later the boy is taken to as an apprentice at Casa de Bonnyfeather. Don Luis had told John Bonnyfeather that his grandchild died with Maria, but he recognizes his daughters features and gives him the surname Adverse in recognition of his difficult life. Anthony grows into a responsible businessman and falls in love with Angela Guisseppi, the cook's daughter. An invasion of Italy by Napoleon separates them, but they are reunited and marry. Soon after the ceremony, Anthony has to leave for Havana to save his benefactor's fortune. Because the note he left her is blown away by the wind, Angela does not know where he is and pursues her operatic career. Frustrated in his attempt to help Bonnyfeather, Anthony leaves for Africa to engage in slave trading. Anthony returns to Italy to find that Bonnyfeather has died and his scheming housekeeper, Faith Paleologus will receive his fortune, if Anthony does not reach Paris to claim his inheritance. On the road to Paris, Faith and Don Luis, who is conspiring together, fail to murder Anthony. In Paris, is reunited with his friend Vincent Nolte, a nearly bankrupt banker. Anthony offers his inheritance to Vincent and continues his search for Angela. He finds Angela and learns that he has a son. Angela admits that she is singing, but does not tell him that she is now known as Mlle. Georges, the infamous opera star and mistress to Napoleon. He learns of her identity and decides to leave for America in search of a new life. Angela is loyal to Napoleon, but sacrifices her son, sending him to America with his father.
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