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Their Own Desire

192965 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 64:25
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · Public domain

Synopsis

Lally resents her father's decision to leave her mother for another woman. Her certainty becomes harder to maintain when she falls in love with that woman's son. The younger couple's relationship forces her to confront desires resembling the ones she has condemned in her parents.

Cast

Norma Shearer

Belle Bennett

Lewis Stone

Robert Montgomery

Helene Millard

DirectorsE. Mason Hopper

Historical context

This early sound melodrama adapts a novel published under Beulah Marie Dix's pseudonym Sarita Fuller. Norma Shearer's performance received an Academy Award nomination during the same awards cycle in which she won for The Divorcee.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Norma Shearer — Unknown author · Public domain
Belle Bennett — Unknown author · Public domain
Lewis Stone — Keyes · Public domain
Robert Montgomery — NBC Television; eBay front back · Public domain

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