• Our Betters (1933)

    Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston (Constance Bennett) realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa (Gilbert Roland), her visiting sister, Bessie (Anita Louise), arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.

Our Betters

Release Date: March 17th, 1933

Not Yet Rated |1 hr 23 min

Plot Summary

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston (Constance Bennett) realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa (Gilbert Roland), her visiting sister, Bessie (Anita Louise), arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.

Cast: Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, Anita Louise, Violet Kemble Cooper, Phoebe Foster, Grant Mitchell, Charles Starrett, Minor Watson

Director: George Cukor

Genres: Comedy

Production Co: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Distributors: RKO Radio Pictures

Keywords: England, Emotional, Fall, Sister, Wife, Husband, Witty, Forbidden love, 1930s

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