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Flesh and Fantasy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Julien Duvivier released in USA on 29 october 1943 with Edward G. Robinson
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
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Add to a movie listFlesh and Fantasy is a 1943 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of Manhattan. Flesh and Fantasy tells three stories, unrelated but with a supernatural theme, by Oscar Wilde and László Vadnay, among others. Tying together the three segments is a conversation about the occult between two clubmen, one played by humorist Robert Benchley.
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First segment The setting is New Orleans. Plain and embittered Henrietta (Betty Field) secretly loves law student Michael (Robert Cummings). On Mardi Gras night, a mysterious stranger (Edgar Barrier) gives her a white mask of beauty that she must return at midnight. At a party, Michael falls in love with Henrietta but has yet to see her face under the mask. Henrietta encourages Michael to follow a better life although it may mean losing him forever. Henrietta removes the mask at midnight discovering she is now beautiful and that her old, selfish attitude was really the cause of her ugliness.Actors
Edward G. Robinson
(Marshall Tyler (segment 2))
Charles Boyer
(Paul Gaspar (segment 3))
Barbara Stanwyck
(Joan Stanley (segment 3))
Betty Field
(Henrietta (segment 1))
Robert Cummings
(Michael (segment 1))
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