Of Human Bondage (1934 film)
- Leslie Howard: Philip
- Bette Davis: Mildred
- Frances Dee: Sally
- Kay Johnson: Norah
- Reginald Denny: Harry
- Alan Hale Sr. .. Emile
- Desmond Roberts: Dr. Jacobs
- Reginald Owen: Mr. Athelny
- Reginald Sheffield: Cyril
Of Human Bondage is an American film drama of 1934 The screenplay is based ( German: Of Human Bondage ) on the novel. By William Somerset Maugham.
Action
Philip Carey tries to be a painter. In Paris, a painter criticized his lack of talent. Philip returned to London to begin her medical studies. Despite his disability - Philip has a club foot - he flirts with the waitress Mildred Rogers. However, Mildred treated him badly, though Philip always comes back and tries to move them to a meeting. When they actually meet for a dinner, Mildred remains cool and distant. An appointment to the theater says it off because she wants to meet with another man, Emile Miller.
Philip is obsessed with Mildred so that it does not pass his intermediate examination. He wants to get married Mildred and presented her a ring. But Mildred tells him that she was with another man. Philip finds out that the other man is Miller. Philip learns the writer Norah know who showered him with love. Philip tried to return her love. As a pregnant Mildred shows up at him, he ended his relationship with Norah. Mildred has been abandoned by Miller, who was married. After the birth of the child Mildred Philip cheating with the student Harry Griffith, but also leaves them quickly.
Philip learns to Sally Athelny, the daughter of a former patient. She invites him to visit her and her family. After months Mildred reappears, with no money but with their child. Philips affection for Mildred has dwindled what this can be angry. It destroys all the pictures that Philip has incidentally painted and burns a stack of bonds that Philip has received from his uncle to finance his studies. Become penniless, he has to break off his studies. However, before he leaves the University, Dr. Jacobs corrected with surgery his clubfoot.
Philip is absorbed by the Athelnys. He gets a job in one of their stores. Him receives a letter from Mildred, in which she asks him for help. She has lost her baby and is suffering from tuberculosis. Out of pity, her Philip sends some money. Philips uncle died and left him a small fortune. Philip can take up his studies again and complete. He is the ship's doctor of a cruise ship. Before the ship casts, Philip learns of Mildred's death. Now he is free of his past. He decides to stay in London and marry Sally.
Criticism
Was Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times, the film did not have the great dramatic density of the novel, but the real-life story and the authenticity of the atmosphere for the viewer hanging on the lips of interesting characters. In addition, Bette Davis play enormously effective.
Awards
1935 Bette Davis was nominated in the category Best Actress Oscar ( The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is one of Davis only as a write- in candidate, and thus not one of the official three nominations for Best Actress of the Year).
Background
The premiere was held in New York on 28 June 1934.
Originally Bette Davis was not nominated for an Oscar. But a campaign her colleague Norma Shearer, and a report in The Hollywood Citizen News provided a notice of the President of the Academy, that the name of Bette Davis could be subsequently written on the ballot.
The film drew two remakes by itself. 1946 Edmund Goulding turned a remake of the same title starring Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker. In 1964 Of Human Bondage, a British production of Ken Hughes with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey.