Her Private Life

1929 film

August 25, 1929 (1929-08-25)

Running time

80 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Her Private Life is a surviving^[1] 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon and Holmes Herbert. The plot concerns an English aristocrat who causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American. The film had been considered a lost film.^[2] However, in July 2016, according to the Library of Congress, the film was found in an Italian archive.

This was Korda's second sound film, following The Squall. It is a remake of the 1925 silent film Déclassée by Robert G. Vignola, which was itself an adaptation of a 1919 play of the same name by Zoë Akins.^[3]

Cast

Billie Dove as Lady Helen Haden
Walter Pidgeon as Ned Thayer
Holmes Herbert as Rudolph Solomon
Montagu Love as Sir Bruce Haden
Thelma Todd as Mrs. Leslie
Roland Young as Charteris
Mary Forbes as Lady Wildering
Brandon Hurst as Sir Emmett Wildering
ZaSu Pitts as Timmins

See also

List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

References

^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Her Private Life
^ Her Private Life at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures 1929
^ Kulik p.51-52

Bibliography

Kulik, Karol. Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.

External links

Her Private Life at IMDb
synopsis at AllMovie
lobby poster
2nd lobby poster

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Films by Alexander Korda

As director

Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
The Duped Journalist (1914)
Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
Lyon Lea (1915)
The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
White Nights (1916)
The Grandmother (1916)
Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
The One Million Pound Note (1916)
Cyclamen (1916)
Struggling Hearts (1916)
The Laughing Saskia (1916)
Miska the Magnate (1916)
St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
The Stork Caliph (1917)
Magic (1917)
Harrison and Barrison (1917)
Faun (1918)
The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
Mary Ann (1918)
Ave Caesar! (1919)
White Rose (1919)
Yamata (1919)
Man of Gold (1919)
Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
Number 111 (1919)
The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
Masters of the Sea (1922)
A Vanished World (1922)
Samson and Delilah (1922)
The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
Everybody's Woman (1924)
Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
Dancing Mad (1925)
Madame Wants No Children (1926)
A Modern Dubarry (1927)
The Stolen Bride (1927)
The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
Yellow Lily (1928)
Night Watch (1928)
Love and the Devil (1929)
The Squall (1929)
Her Private Life (1929)
Lilies of the Field (1930)
Women Everywhere (1930)
The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
The Men Around Lucy (1931)
Rive gauche (1931)
Marius (1931)
Longing for the Sea (1931)
The Golden Anchor (1932)
Service for Ladies (1932)
Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
La dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Rembrandt (1936)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Perfect Strangers (1945)
An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only

Men of Tomorrow (1932)
That Night in London (1932)
Women Who Play (1932)
Strange Evidence (1933)
Counsel's Opinion (1933)
Cash (1933)
Catherine the Great (1934)
The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Sanders of the River (1935)
Wharves and Strays (1935) (short)
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1936) (short)
The Fox Hunt (1936)
Things to Come (1936)
I Stand Condemned (1936)
Men Are Not Gods (1936)
Forget Me Not (1936)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Fire Over England (1937)
I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished)
Dark Journey (1937)
Elephant Boy (1937)
Farewell Again (1937)
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Action for Slander (1937)
Knight Without Armour (1937)
The Squeaker (1937)
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Paradise for Two (1937)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
The Drum (1938)
South Riding (1938)
The Challenge (1938)
Prison Without Bars (1938)
Q Planes (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Rebel Son (1939)
The Spy in Black (1939)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Over the Moon (1939)
21 Days (1940)
Conquest of the Air (1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Old Bill and Son (1941)
Lydia (1941)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
The Biter Bit (1943) (short)
The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
A Man About the House (1947)
Mine Own Executioner (1947)
Night Beat (1948)
Anna Karenina (1948)
The Winslow Boy (1948)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
That Dangerous Age (1949)
The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
Saints and Sinners (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
The Cure for Love (1950)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
The Bridge of Time (1950) (short documentary)
My Daughter Joy (1950)
State Secret (1950)
The Wooden Horse (1950)
Seven Days to Noon (1950)
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
The Wonder Kid (1951)
Mr. Denning Drives North (1952)
Outcast of the Islands (1952)
Home at Seven (1952)
Who Goes There! (1952)
Cry. the Beloved Country (1952)
Edinburgh (1952) (short documentary)
Road to Canterbury (1952) (short documentary)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
The Ringer (1953)
Folly to Be Wise (1953)
Twice Upon a Time (1953)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
The Man Between (1953)
The Heart of the Matter (1954)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
The Teckman Mystery (1954)
The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
Three Cases of Murder (1955)
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
Summertime (1955)
Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Richard III (1955)
Smiley (1956)

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