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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1027

Ladies of Leisure

193099 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 99:48
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Frank Capra · Public domain

Synopsis

An artist from a wealthy family hires Kay, a woman he meets after a party, to model for a painting of hope. Their working relationship becomes a romance, but his family investigates her past and demands that he abandon her. Kay must decide whether leaving him would protect the future they have begun to imagine.

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck

Ralph Graves

Lowell Sherman

DirectorsFrank Capra

Behind the scenes

Frank Capra directed Barbara Stanwyck in an adaptation of the stage play Ladies of the Evening. The production marked an expansion of his creative control at Columbia and gave Stanwyck a role that drew particular attention to her dramatic performance.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Barbara Stanwyck — Whitey Schafer · Public domain
Ralph Graves — Unknown author · Public domain
Lowell Sherman — Studio of Luther S. White · Public domain

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