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Strange Interlude is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 30 december 1932 with Norma Shearer
Strange Interlude (1932)
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Add to a movie listStrange Interlude is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. It is greatly shortened from the play: the stage production lasts six hours and is sometimes performed over two evenings, while the film runs the usual two hours.
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Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during World War I. Nina would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. Charlie is a friend, but Nina does not love him and he is too timid, too shy, to tell her the way that he feels about her. Sam is her husband and her love disappears after the ceremony when she finds out that there is mental illness in his family and that there can be no children.Actors
Norma Shearer
(Nina Leeds)
Clark Gable
(Dr. Ned Darrell)
Alexander Kirkland
(Sam Evans)
Ralph Morgan
(Charlie Marsden)
Robert Young
(Gordon Evans as a young man)
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