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The Shining Hour is a 1938 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, based on the 1934 play The Shining Hour by Keith Winter, and starring Joan Crawford and Margaret Sullavan. The supporting cast of the MGM film features Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter and Hattie McDaniel.
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A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
- Frank Borzage, Lew Borzage
- Joan Crawford
Sick of her life in New York City, nightclub dancer Olivia Riley (Joan Crawford) moves to Wisconsin to marry Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), a well-to-do farmer.
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- Frank Borzage
- Drama
- Joan Crawford
Melvyn Douglas is Henry Linden, a gentleman farmer who wants to take her away from all this to Wisconsin, and sick of her present life, she marries him. Arriving on the farm, she finds herself hated by Henry's sister, Hannah (Bainter), lusted after by Henry's brother David (Young) and loved and envied by David's wife Judy (Sullavan).
Olivia, a beautiful nightclub singer (Joan Crawford), attracts every man she meets, including the brother of her new fiance. Her fiance, Henry, (Melvyn Douglas) and his brother, David, (Robert Young) are from an old, wealthy, landed-gentry-type family.
In a Frank Borzage picture, romance is a life-force, an unmitigated drive, the unconquerable. In The Shining Hour, Borzage uses Margaret Sullavan (his muse at the time) to convey both the bravery of being a lover and the inherent tragedy of it.
