Lionel barrymore charles durning12/9/2023 ![]() The film isn’t great, but it is never boring. And that’s just the beginning of their troubles! Chandler divorces her and gets sole custody of their daughter. They have a daughter and Nicol returns, getting the unwitting Young involved in another robbery with her three-year-old daughter along for the ride having been kidnapped by Nicol. The two marry while he is still in the dark as to her background. While on probation, she acts as a nurse’s aid where she falls in love with shellshocked World War II veteran Jeff Chandler. While in jail, Young studies nursing and becomes a brunette. Loretta Young’s penultimate film has her playing a dimwitted blond playgirl whose gangster boyfriend (Alex Nicol) is caught in a robbery for which she is arrested as an accessory even though she had nothing to do with it. Joseph Pevney’s 1952 film Because of You is considered a film noir, but it’s more of a soap opera. He was killed in a military air collision in 1942 at 35, one of the first show business casualties of the war. Holmes acted on stage before joining the Canadian Air Force at the beginning of World War II. Carroll had a comeback of sorts on TV in the 1950s and early 1960s, dying in 1965 at 61. Holmes’ and Carroll’s careers both fizzled by 1938, the last year either one appeared on the screen. The future director of The Shop Around the Corner and To Be or Not to Be among others, kept his word. Lubitsch, whose other 1932 films were the hits, One Hour with You and Trouble in Paradise, was so upset over the film’s failure that he vowed never to make a serious film again. One of the great pacifist films of the era, along with All Quiet on the Western Front and Westfront 1918, the film was a box-office failure despite strong reviews. ![]() ![]() Holmes ingratiates himself to the man’s parents (Carter and Barrymore), and his grieving fiancé (Carroll), and eventually becomes accepted by the locals before confessing his secret to Carroll. He is discovered praying over his grave by the man’s mother (Louise Carter) who assumes Holmes was a friend of her late son. ![]() Looking to assuage his guilt, he travels to the small German town where the man he killed lived and is buried. The soldier, he discovers, was a musician like himself, someone he knew about from having attended the same university. The two were even better together in 1931’s Stolen Heaven, the year Holmes also gave stellar performances in Howard Hawks’ The Criminal Code and Josef von Sternberg’s An American Tragedy.īilled third behind Lionel Barrymore and Carroll, Holmes is the protagonist in Broken Lullaby, a French solider suffering from what today would be called PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) from his killing of a German soldier at the end of World War I. Carroll had been nominated for an Oscar for their first pairing in 1930’s The Devil’s Holiday. Kino Lorber ends the year with a slew of new releases including Broken Lullaby, Because of You, The Midnight Story, and Mass Appeal.Įrnest Lubitsch’s 1932 film Broken Lullaby was the third teaming of Phillips Holmes and Nancy Carroll. ![]()
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