The Marriage Playground

The Marriage Playground
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Directed by	Lothar Mendes
Screenplay by	Doris Anderson J. Walter Ruben Edith Wharton
Starring	Mary Brian Fredric March Lilyan Tashman Huntley Gordon Kay Francis William Austin Seena Owen Gene Raymond
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Music by	Henry Kimball Hadley
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 21, 1929 (1929-12-21)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Marriage Playground is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes, and written by Doris Anderson, J. Walter Ruben, and Edith Wharton. The film stars Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon, Kay Francis, William Austin, Seena Owen and Gene Raymond. The film was released on December 21, 1929, by Paramount Pictures.^[1]^[2] It's the first film debuted by Gene Raymond.

Plot

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A daughter tries to keep her parents together

Cast

Mary Brian as Judith Wheater
Fredric March as Martin Boyne
Lilyan Tashman as Joyce Wheater
Huntley Gordon as Cliff Wheater
Kay Francis as Lady Wrench
William Austin as Lord Wrench
Seena Owen as Rose Sellers
Gene Raymond as Rhys Trevor III
Philippe De Lacy as Terry Wheater
Anita Louise as Blanca Wheater
Mitzi Green as Zinnie Wheater
Billy Seay as Bun Wheater
Ruby Parsley as Beatrice Wheater
Donald Smith as Chip Wheater
Jocelyn Lee as Sybil
Maude Turner Gordon as Aunt Julia Langley
Armand Kaliz as Prince Matriano
Joan Standing as Miss Scopey
Gordon De Main as Mr. Delafield
Spencer Bell as Policeman #1 (uncredited)
Clive Brook as A man on the Phone (uncredited)
Fred Malatesta as Policeman #2 (uncredited)

See also

List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
The Children (1990)

References

^ "Movie Review - Lucky in Love - THE SCREEN; Fun and Romance". nytimes.com. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
^ "The Marriage Playground". afi.com. Retrieved February 15, 2015.

External links

The Marriage Playground at IMDb
The Marriage Playground at the TCM Movie Database
Springtime Fashions: The Marriage Playground (1929) at prettycleverfilms.com (film stills)

Films directed by Lothar Mendes

The Secret of Santa Maria (1921)
The Adventurer (1922)
Certificates of Death (1923)
The Island of Tears (1923)
The Monk from Santarem (1924)
Love Is Blind (1925)
Three Cuckoo Clocks (1926)
Prince of Tempters (1926)
Convoy (1927)
A Night of Mystery (1928)
The Street of Sin (1928)
Interference (1928)
The Four Feathers (1929)
Dangerous Curves (1929)
Illusion (1929)
The Marriage Playground (1929)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Ladies' Man (1931)
Personal Maid (1931)
Strangers in Love (1932)
Payment Deferred (1932)
If I Had a Million (1932)
Luxury Liner (1933)
Jew Süss (1934)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Moonlight Sonata (1937)
International Squadron (1941)
Flight for Freedom (1943)
Tampico (1944)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

Novels

The House of Mirth (1905)
The Reef (1912)
The Custom of the Country (1913)
Summer (1917)
The Age of Innocence (1920)
The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
Twilight Sleep (1927)
The Buccaneers (1938)

Novellas
and novelette

The Touchstone (1900)
Ethan Frome (1911)
Bunner Sisters (1916)
Old New York (1924)

Short story
collections

The Greater Inclination (1899)
Crucial Instances (1901)

Non-fiction

The Decoration of Houses (1897)
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915)

As editor

The Book of the Homeless (1916)

Adaptations

Film	The House of Mirth (1918) The Glimpses of the Moon (1923) The Age of Innocence (1924) The Marriage Playground (1929) The Age of Innocence (1934) Strange Wives (1934) The Old Maid (1939) The Children (1990) Ethan Frome (1993) The Age of Innocence (1993) The Reef (1999) The House of Mirth (2000)
Television	The House of Mirth (1981) The Buccaneers (1995) The Buccaneers (2023)

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