After finishing act 1 I felt this was a fun tribute to Oscar Wilde's plays. Written at a time of stagnant trench war (a fact Panych's production ignores), when Americans actually wanted to avoid "foreign entanglements," Our Betters now seems like an awfully short-sighted allegory fuelled by sneering resentment at needing a helping hand. In the Chichester programme part of … Sociétés de production: RKO: Pays d’origine: États-Unis: Genre: comédie dramatique: Durée: 83 min (1 h 23) Sortie: 1933: Pour plus de détails, voir Fiche technique et Distribution. Under the Strictly Glitterball with Jamie Laing: 'We don't need an audience - we're loud enough', The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernières review: flying on empty, The Jazz Cafe's lockdown crisis: 'The danger is, artists will go backwards – they'll lose fans', ‘I am not grumpy, I just look this way’: how Geoffrey Palmer made misery funny. Indeed, Maugham's play is, at best, ambivalent toward Americans – and implies that they should stay the heck away from Europe for everyone's sake. Maugham's script makes it clear that turning her back on a marriage devised at the age of 16 is an immoral mistake – and director Morris Panych's production of the play does not question this dubious dramatic position. Readers can also interact with The Globe on Facebook and Twitter . As a gay man, Cukor could personally relate to Bennett's charcater, a flirtatious woman running her house as a salon, and to the Duchess, a declining woman who has to pay for sex. Our Betters: Souvenir Theatre Programme Performed at Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W. Somerset Maugham [Starring Alice Mosley, Marion Terry, Margaret Bannerman, Stuart Sage, Constance Collier, Alfred Drayton, Patrick Gover in] Anthony Prinsep and Marir Löhr Somerset Maugham by Morgan, Ted, 1932-Publication date 1980 Topics Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 -- Biography, Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography Publisher London : J. Cape Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Then the holidays came and I forgot about it. the title. To see what your friends thought of this book. Well, Our Betters certainly needs a more rigorous treatment to seem relevant here and now. Based on the 1913 play of the same name. Pour plus de détails, voir Fiche technique et Distribution. One shocked critic noted that he was “the most broadly painted character of the kind yet attempted on the screen.”, Dealing with the lascivious affairs of the upper class, Cukor excelled in bringing out the typically English drawing-room banter and the wickedly nasty humor of characters who show no sign of repenting or changing their ways. Unfortunately, it was the only Somerset Maugham work (play or book) that George Cukor directed for the big screen, despite their wish to work together, based on lifelong friendship. Very Maugham. The Shaw Festival is marketing W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters as "perfect for lovers of Downton Abbey." As Our Betters begins, the beautiful, innocent heiress Bessie (Julia Course, filling out a character that could easily be flat) has arrived in London to spend time with her sister Pearl (Claire Jullien), who sailed across the ocean years ago to marry a lord and become a lady. Une américaine fortunée découvre le jour de son mariage que son mari, un aristocrate anglais, l'a épousée pour sa fortune et aime une autre femme. William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. But unfortunately he was unable to assemble a company equal to the demands of the form. Our Betters, a Pre-Code satire about th social and sexual mores of a free-spirited American social climber, fearures star Constance Bennete in one of her most seductive performances.. Maugham's play is darker than Coward's high comedies–a bitter expose of expatriate American women who marry British nobility for Our Betters, a farce about a free-spirited American social climber, was the only Somerset Maugham play Cukor directed for the screen. • The Land of Promise (1917), directed by Joseph Kaufman and starring Thomas Meighan and David van Eyck. The Shaw Festival is marketing W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters as "perfect for lovers of Downton Abbey."

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