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The Guardsman (1931)
Directed by Sidney Franklin
“His disguise was perfect - did she really know it was her husband when she surrended to him...?”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 22m
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
Cast
Alfred Lunt
The Actor
Lynn Fontanne
The Actress
Roland Young
The Critic
Zasu Pitts
Liesl
Maude Eburne
"Mama"
Herman Bing
A Creditor
Ann Dvorak
Fan Saying "There He Is" (uncredited)
Geraldine Dvorak
Operagoer (uncredited)
Michael Mark
The Actor's Valet (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Theatregoer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Sidney Franklin
- Screenplay
- Ernest Vajda
- Director of Photography
- Norbert Brodine
- Editor
- Conrad A. Nervig
- Producer
- Albert Lewin, Irving Thalberg
Details
- Release date
- 1931-10-20
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer