Clara Bow
Alverna
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Synopsis
A divorce lawyer retreats to the Canadian wilderness for relief from disputes between men and women. A local trader offers hospitality, but the trader's restless new wife finds the visitor more interesting than backwoods life. Her determination to leave with him turns his peaceful holiday into precisely the kind of romantic entanglement he hoped to escape.
Cast
DirectorsVictor Fleming
Inspirations
Victor Fleming's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel gives Clara Bow a central role as the energetic Alverna. The comedy sets urban expectations against frontier domestic life, with neither environment providing a simple answer to the characters' dissatisfaction.
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- Clara Bow — Harold Dean Carsey (1886-1947) · Public domain
- Percy Marmont — Unattributed. Taken from Who's Who on the Silver Screen (page 41), by Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver. Published by Ross Publishing Co., 1920. Photographers are credited en masse in the book's endnotes but which photographer is responsible for which is not listed. · Public domain
- Ernest Torrence — Unknown author · Public domain
