Susan and God
(1940)
115 or 117 mins | Drama | 7 June 1940
Director:
George CukorWriter:
Anita LoosProducer:
Hunt StrombergCinematographer:
Robert PlanckEditor:
William TerhuneProduction Designer:
Cedric GibbonsProduction Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.According to a news item in HR, M-G-M paid $75,000 for the rights to the Rachel Crothers play. Another item in HR notes that Greer Garson was originally slated for the title role in the picture. Columbia loaned Rita Hayworth to M-G-M for this picture, according to a news item in HR. The Var review notes that this picture marked Fredric March's return to the screen after a year and a half absence, during which time he was performing on the stage. A HR news item adds that technical advisor Cece Broadhurst was a Canadian singing cowboy. According to a HR news item, the film was banned by Australian censors until 1948, when it was released under the title The Gay Mrs. Trexel. In 1951, ABC produced a television version of the play on the Celanese Theatre directed by Alex Segal and starring Pamela Brown and Albert Dekker, and in 1956, NBC produced another version of the play on Matinee Theatre, adapted by Lawrence Hazard and starring Sarah Churchill. ...
According to a news item in HR, M-G-M paid $75,000 for the rights to the Rachel Crothers play. Another item in HR notes that Greer Garson was originally slated for the title role in the picture. Columbia loaned Rita Hayworth to M-G-M for this picture, according to a news item in HR. The Var review notes that this picture marked Fredric March's return to the screen after a year and a half absence, during which time he was performing on the stage. A HR news item adds that technical advisor Cece Broadhurst was a Canadian singing cowboy. According to a HR news item, the film was banned by Australian censors until 1948, when it was released under the title The Gay Mrs. Trexel. In 1951, ABC produced a television version of the play on the Celanese Theatre directed by Alex Segal and starring Pamela Brown and Albert Dekker, and in 1956, NBC produced another version of the play on Matinee Theatre, adapted by Lawrence Hazard and starring Sarah Churchill.
Barrie Trexel rushes to the docks to meet his estranged wife Susan when he learns that she is returning home from Europe. Susan, who wants a divorce from Barrie, a man driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity, avoids him and takes refuge at the country home of her friend, Irene Burroughs. There, Susan begins spouting the religious fadism that she has picked up from Lady Millicent Wigstaff, and urges her friends to be honest about their relationships. While Susan insists that Irene and her lover Mike are unsuited for each other and that the beautiful young Leonara should leave her elderly husband Hutchie and return to the stage, Barrie appears and begs his wife's forgiveness. Barrie pleads with Susan to heed her own words and give him another chance for the sake of their daughter Blossom, offering to grant Susan a divorce if he takes another drink. Certain that Barrie will be unable to keep his part of the bargain, Susan agrees. Gradually, Susan comes to realize that her daughter really needs her, but when Lady Wigstaff summons Susan to Newport on the day of Blossom's big birthday party, Susan decides to go. Susan's selfishness prompts Barrie to begin drinking again, and he asks Charlotte, an old friend who has always loved Barrie, to marry him. At the railroad station, Susan realizes that she has acted selfishly and that the love of her family is the most important thing in her life, and she returns home. Charlotte, realizing that Susan still loves Barrie, rejects his proposal, and Susan begs Barrie for another ...
Barrie Trexel rushes to the docks to meet his estranged wife Susan when he learns that she is returning home from Europe. Susan, who wants a divorce from Barrie, a man driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity, avoids him and takes refuge at the country home of her friend, Irene Burroughs. There, Susan begins spouting the religious fadism that she has picked up from Lady Millicent Wigstaff, and urges her friends to be honest about their relationships. While Susan insists that Irene and her lover Mike are unsuited for each other and that the beautiful young Leonara should leave her elderly husband Hutchie and return to the stage, Barrie appears and begs his wife's forgiveness. Barrie pleads with Susan to heed her own words and give him another chance for the sake of their daughter Blossom, offering to grant Susan a divorce if he takes another drink. Certain that Barrie will be unable to keep his part of the bargain, Susan agrees. Gradually, Susan comes to realize that her daughter really needs her, but when Lady Wigstaff summons Susan to Newport on the day of Blossom's big birthday party, Susan decides to go. Susan's selfishness prompts Barrie to begin drinking again, and he asks Charlotte, an old friend who has always loved Barrie, to marry him. At the railroad station, Susan realizes that she has acted selfishly and that the love of her family is the most important thing in her life, and she returns home. Charlotte, realizing that Susan still loves Barrie, rejects his proposal, and Susan begs Barrie for another chance.
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