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Merrily We Go to Hell is a 1932 pre-Code film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney. The supporting cast features a prominent early appearance by Cary Grant, billed ninth in the cast but with a larger part than this would suggest.
Merrily We Go to Hell: Directed by Dorothy Arzner. With Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher. A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Dorothy Arzner
- 1932-06-10
A 1932 pre-Code comedy about an alcoholic husband and his wife who try an open marriage. Directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the few women directors in 1930s Hollywood, the film explores addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation.
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In Merrily We Go to Hell, Sylvia Sidney stars as Joan Prentice in a showy role that garnered her critical recognition early in her career. The daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, Joan is a sweet-natured innocent who meets working-class reporter Jerry Corbett at a hedonistic penthouse party.
- Dorothy Arzner
- Sylvia Sidney
Jun 14, 2021 · One of the best of these movies, made when marriage was far more of an expectation than it is today, is Dorothy Arzner’s crisply titled Merrily We Go to Hell, from 1932. It was a box-office...
- Pamela Hutchinson
Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and Sylvia Sidney turn in extraordinary performances as the urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye—leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage.
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A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued by an heiress, Joan Prentice, who helps him write a play, but he relapses into alcoholism. The film is directed by Edwin Justus Mayer and written by Dorothy Arzner.
