I Loved a Woman

I Loved a Woman
I Loved a Woman
	1933 Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Screenplay by	Charles Kenyon; Sidney Sutherland
Based on	Red Meat; novel; by David Karsner
Produced by	Henry Blanke
Starring	Kay Francis; Edward G. Robinson; Genevieve Tobin
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Edited by	Herbert Levy
Music by	Bernhard Kaun
Production; company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	September 23, 1933;
Running time	90 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

I Loved a Woman is a 1933 American pre-Code drama directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, and Genevieve Tobin. According to producer Hal Wallis' autobiography (with Charles Higham), Robinson and Francis "were oddly matched. Kay was so tall that we had to put Eddie [Robinson] on a box in some scenes to bring him level with her and, understandably he was humiliated. Irritable and self-conscious, he argued with Kay frequently. But he [...] gave credit to her fine acting." However, it was Wallis and other executives who also made the choice to cut three of Kay's scenes, leaving her presence in the film really as a supporting actress.^[1]

Plot

John Hayden, owner of a Chicago meat-packing company, falls in love with a beautiful opera singer.

Cast

Edward G. Robinson as John Mansfield Hayden
Kay Francis as Laura McDonald
Genevieve Tobin as Martha Lane Hayden
Robert Barrat as Charles Lane
Murray Kinnell as Davenport
Robert McWade as Larkin
J. Farrell MacDonald as Shuster
Henry Kolker as Mr. Sanborn
George Blackwood as Henry
Walter Walker as Oliver
Henry O'Neill as Mr. Farrell
E. J. Ratcliffe as Theodore Roosevelt
William V. Mong as Bowen
Douglass Dumbrille as Brandt (uncredited)
Howard Hickman as Businessman (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell as Gossiper (uncredited)

References

^ Daniel Bubbeo, The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2010), 92, ISBN 0786462361; Robert Beck, The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2002), 162, ISBN 1476606668; and Hal Wallis and Charles Higham, Starmaker: The Autobiography of Hal Wallis (NY: Macmillan, 1980); ISBN 0026231700