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Anthony Adverse

1936, Movie, NR, 139 mins

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This lavish but overlong film remains true to the 1200-page best-seller on which it is based, though judging by the result one wonders to what extent this is admirable. Popular and acclaimed in its day, and technically highly skilled, ANTHONY ADVERSE subtitutes historical pageantry for drama and melodramatic flourish for characterization whenever it gets the chance. March plays the title role, an illegitimate child whose father (Hayward) is killed in a duel and who is raise... read more leave a comment
Year: 1936
Rated NR

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Cast
Fredric March: Anthony Adverse
Olivia de Havilland: Angela Guessippi
Edmund Gwenn: John Bonnyfeather
Claude Rains: Don Luis
Anita Louise: Maria
Louis Hayward: Denis Moore

 

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"Seven Oscar nominations went to Anthony Adverse (1936), Warner Brothers' adaptation of the...
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Posted: 9/20/2008
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