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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Merrily we go to Hell / Paramount presents ; directed Dorothy Arzner ; screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer.

Edition:

Special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)

digital

optical

video file

DVD video region 1

Summary:

Reporter Jerry Corbett aspires to be a playwright but finds himself drinking more than writing. Everyone is stunned when heiress Joan Prentice agrees to marry him, though it initially appears that he has changed his ways. However, when his work takes the couple to New York, Jerry's bad behavior and a persistent old flame lead them to an explosive experiment with open marriage.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 1076

Criterion collection ; 1076.

Subjects:

Adultery -- Drama.

Alcoholics -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Arzner, Dorothy, 1900-1979, film director.

Mayer, Edwin Justus, 1896-1960, screenwriter.

Sidney, Sylvia, 1910-1999, actor.

March, Fredric, 1897-1975, actor.

Allen, Adrianne, 1907-1993, actor.

Gallagher, Skeets, 1890-1955, actor.

Irving, George, 1874-1961, actor.

Howard, Esther, 1892-1965, actor.

Britton, Florence, actor.

Coleman, Charles, 1885-1951, actor.

Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.

Taylor, Kent, 1907-1987, actor.

Abel, David, 1883-1973, director of photography.

Loring, Jane, 1890-1983, editor of moving image work.

Beauchamp, Cari, on-screen participant.

Mayne, Judith, writer of supplementary textual content.

Film adaptation of (work): Lucas, Cleo. I Jerry take thee, Joan.

Paramount Publix Corporation, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Container of (work) : Dorothy Arzner, longing for women (Motion picture).

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Based on the play "I Jerry take thee, Joan" by Cleo Lucas.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Special features: Dorothy Arzner: Longing for women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler; new video essay by Cari Beauchamp; essay by Judith Mayne.

Photographed by David Abel; editor, Jane Loring.

Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, George Irving, Esther Howard, Florence Britton, Charles Coleman, Cary Grant, Kent Taylor.

DVD, full screen (1.37:1); mono; region 1.

Title from disc surface.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9781681438320

1681438321

9781681438320 : DVD

1681438321 : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC3251DDVD

Other Number:

1241711424

System Availability:

4

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

4

Control Number:

899740

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Merrily