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Merrily We Go to Hell is a 1932 pre-Code film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney. The supporting cast features a prominent early appearance by Cary Grant, billed ninth in the cast but with a larger part than this would suggest.
A 1932 pre-Code comedy about an alcoholic husband and his wife who try an open marriage. Directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the few women directors in 1930s Hollywood, the film explores addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation.
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Merrily We Go to Hell: Directed by Dorothy Arzner. With Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher. A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Dorothy Arzner
- 1932-06-10
Jun 14, 2021 · One of the best of these movies, made when marriage was far more of an expectation than it is today, is Dorothy Arzner’s crisply titled Merrily We Go to Hell, from 1932. It was a box-office...
- Pamela Hutchinson
Frederich March plays nere-do-well Jerry Corbett, who finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss, played by Sylvia Sydney. Unfortunately their wedded bliss is interrupted when Jerry's play becomes a hit and he hooks up with the wrong woman from his past. Joan decides that turn-about...
- Dorothy Arzner
- Sylvia Sidney
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued by an heiress, Joan Prentice, who helps him write a play, but he relapses into alcoholism. The film is directed by Edwin Justus Mayer and written by Dorothy Arzner.
Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early-feminist commentary on modern marriage.
