Housewife

Director: Alfred E. Green Alfred E. Green

Overview

In this drama, a seductive business associate of a married man allows him to claim her brilliant idea for an ad-campaign in exchange for the resumption of their romance. The campaign is a great success and establishes the man's newly formed ad-agency. He is not unhappy to become her lover again. He is just about to throw his wife over for the other woman when he hears her makes some cruel remarks about his wife. This makes him realize that he still loves his spouse; it is then that he remembers that it was she who inspired him to try to make it on his own. He humbly returns to her.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/01/2011
UPC:	0883316396131
Original Release:	1934
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:09:00
Sales rank:	42,048

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bette Davis	Patricia Berkeley
George Brent	William Reynolds
Ann Dvorak	Nan Reynolds
John Halliday	Paul Duprey
Robert Barrat	Sam Blake,Sam Blake
Hobart Cavanaugh	George Wilson
Ruth Donnelly	Dora Wilson
Joseph Cawthorn	Kruger
Harry Tyler	Plumber
Leila Bennett	Jennie
Ronnie Cosbey	Buddy
Willard Robertson	Judge
John T. Murray	Salesman
Bill Elliott	Clerk
Leo White	Waiter
Eula Guy	Miss Finch
Phil Regan	Hathaway, the Crooner
Lee Phelps	Court Clerk
Charles Coleman	Bolton
Jonathan Hale	Doctor
Mort Dixon	Composer
Allie Wrubel	Composer

Technical Credits

Lillie Hayward

Manuel Seff

Alfred E. Green	Director
Robert Lord	Producer
Lillie Hayward	Screenwriter
Manuel Seff	Screenwriter
Jack Warner	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Both Barbara Stanwyck and Genevieve Tobin reportedly turned down the chance of playing the "other woman" in this rather tedious melodrama, the role instead going to young Bette Davis, who, perhaps as a reward for courage, is given co-star billing above nominal leading lady Ann Dvorak. Not yet at the top of her game, Davis is rather obvious as the calculating femme fatale and the acting laurels -- the few there are -- instead goes to the always dependable Ann Dvorak as the betrayed wife.