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Merrily We Go to Hell is a american film of genre Drama directed by Dorothy Arzner released in USA on 10 june 1932 with Fredric March

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Merrily We Go to Hell
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Released in USA 10 june 1932
Length 1h18
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Romance
Rating68% 3.4426353.4426353.4426353.4426353.442635

Merrily We Go to Hell is a 1932 Pre-Code film starring Academy Award winning actor Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney. The film was directed by Dorothy Arzner. The film's title is an example of the sensationalistic titles that were common in the Pre-Code era. Many newspapers refused to publicize the film because of its racy title. March plays a man undone by alcoholism. The title is a line his character says while making a toast.

March plays an adulterous husband. Sylvia Sidney plays his wife who, when she discovers his adultery, cheats on him with another man (played by Cary Grant in one of his earliest roles). The film received a mixed review from The New York Times upon its release.

Synopsis

Jerry Corbett (Fredric March), a Chicago reporter and self-styled playwright, meets heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sydney) at a party and they begin dating. Even though Jerry's economic prospects are dim and he is an alcoholic, he proposes to Joan. She agrees to marry him, against her father's objections. Even when Jerry becomes completely inebriated just before (and ruins, as far as Joan is concerned) their engagement party, Joan stands by him. Jerry writes some plays which are rejected, and fights the urge to drink. He manages to sell a play and they go to New York to see it produced. The star of the production is Jerry's former girlfriend Claire, and on the premiere night he gets stinking drunk, and mistakes Joan for Claire. Still, Joan stands by him. But, when Joan catches Jerry trying to go to Claire's one night she kicks him out. The following day she tells him that they will have a "modern marriage" and that she intends to have affairs herself.

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