But it's 1928, and brains don't help a girl much...unless she uses them to promote her other asset.
Ships from United States. The film is the story of Marian Martin, a factory worker who rises to the top as the mistress of a wealthy attorney. When Al learns that Marian is friends with Mark, Al hopes he can use Mark to help land that contract. Seeing that text on the paper, Mark has a worried look on his face, he not knowing what to do.
Possessed (1931) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Please add "promo@promo.newegg.com" to your address book to ensure delivery. USA, 1931. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. The crowd cheers as she, sobbing, leaves.
Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Factory girl Marian Martin has two ways out of poverty: brains and beauty.
Certificate: Passed
Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money...
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Comedy He sees Marian and asks her to marry him, but she refuses.
But it’s 1928, and brains don’t help a girl … But it’s 1928, and brains don’t help a girl much…unless she uses them to promote her other asset.
Certificate: Passed Al, who was waiting for her and accuses her of being drunk, spots the piece of paper containing Wally's address in Marian's hand, grabs it from her, and tears it up.
The familiar theme of a small-town factory girl who becomes the mistress of a wealthy New Yorker is set forth with new ideas which result in surprises, if not in a measure of suspense.According to MGM records the film earned $1,030,000 in the US and Canada and $492,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $611,000. November 28,1931 .
A successful novelist falls in love with her married publisher, to the consternation of her boyfriend, who arranges for her to meet the publisher's wife.
Joan Crawford plays the lollipop and Clark Gable plays the sucker she lands – and eventually comes to love – in this pre-Code scorcher that expertly mixes greed, ambition, politics and sex into a frank portrait of a world where men have power and women have a sell-by date stamped on their flesh.
But Possessed (1931) is less about the road to a bright future for these star-crossed lovers than the on-screen sexual chemistry between the two stars - Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. Share the glamour and the heartache as Marian discovers that to possess the things she wants, she must be Possessed.
Possessed Passed | 1h 16min | Drama , Romance | 21 November 1931 (USA) An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife. Available on.
There, she looks up Wally who gives her some advice on meeting and keeping wealthy men, which Marian uses to begin a relationship with his friend Mark Whitney (She eventually becomes Mark's mistress and he provides her with a complete make-over, educating her in the arts and culture of his social set.
Joan Crawford plays the lollipop and Clark Gable plays the sucker she lands ' and eventually comes to love ' in this pre-Code scorcher that expertly mixes greed, ambition, politics and sex into a frank portrait of a world where men have power and women have a sell-by date stamped on their flesh. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her. It was their third film together but it was the first time the duo truly clicked with audiences as a screen couple. 5 Replies to “Possessed (1931) Review, with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable” shadowsandsatin says: June 11, 2018 at 6:33 pm I love, love, love Possessed — always have, always will. As the crowd rumbles, Marian steps up from the audience and tells them that she is Mrs. Moreland, and that Mark has always been an honorable man, who once belonged to her, but now belongs to them. Some time later, Al, now running a prosperous cement business, comes to the city hoping to land a big contract.
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Certificate: Passed Through Clarence Brown's able direction, handsome settings and a fairly well-written script, "Possessed,"... is a gratifying entertainment. He changes his mind when he realizes that in shutting her out of his life, he is also burning his bridges with Mark and that highway contract.
Possessed is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Certificate: Passed A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won. Marian lashes out, telling Al and her mother that no one owns her and that her life belongs to herself.
1 h 16 min
Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood.
A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite. Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. To cover the fact of Marian being his kept woman, Mark devises a made-up back story of her being "Mrs. Moreland", a wealthy divorcee living comfortably off her alimony.
Drama Read the full synopsis of Possessed, 1931, directed by Clarence Brown, with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, at Turner Classic Movies The screenplay by Lenore J. She grabs the torn paper shreds up from the floor and pastes them back together, then leaves for New York City. No one is aware that Marian is in the audience.