Dodsworth (1936) on Netflix
Sam Dodsworth sells the car company he built and retires, then sails to Europe with his wife Fran. She wants dancing and dinner parties; he wants to see the world.
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Plot summary
Sam Dodsworth, president of Dodsworth Motors, sells the company he founded twenty years earlier in a small midwestern town. His wife Fran feels trapped by their dull social life, so the couple sets out on the long European trip they had planned. On the crossing they meet congenial companions, among them Edith Cortright, an American divorcee who lives in Italy and understands Sam's wish to learn new things. Fran flirts with a younger Englishman, Captain Lockert, and then persuades Sam to bypass England for Paris. In France she cultivates a high-class social life and presents herself as far younger than she is, while Sam is content with the usual tourist sights.
Cast
- Kathryn Marloweas Emily
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dodsworth (1936)
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- While Dodsworth was shooting, Mary Astor was locked in a bitter divorce fight over her affair with dramatist George S. Kaufman. Her husband threatened to read her diary into evidence, but the entries were destroyed; Astor lived in her dressing-room bungalow and attended court at night.
- Dodsworth gave William Wyler his first Best Director Oscar nomination, the first of a record twelve in that category, and the film won Best Art Direction among its seven nominations.
- Billed in the cast as "John Howard Payne", John Payne made his first film appearance in Dodsworth, playing Dodsworth's son-in-law Harry in a small role that launched a screen career of more than four decades.
