''Reunion in Vienna'' is a 1933 American
pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...
romantic drama produced and distributed by
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...
.
Sidney Franklin served as director. The film stars
John Barrymore
John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly att ...
in a story taken from the 1931 stage play of the same name by
Robert Emmet Sherwood.
''Reunion in Vienna'' as produced on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre November 16,1931 to July 1932, 164 performances; IBDb.com
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Plot
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Cast
*John Barrymore
John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly att ...
as Archduke Rudolf von Habsburg
*Diana Wynyard
Diana Wynyard, CBE (born Dorothy Isobel Cox; 16 January 1906 – 13 May 1964) was an English stage and film actress.
Life and career
Born in Lewisham, South London, Wynyard began her career on the stage. After performing in Liverpool and Lon ...
as Elena Krug
*Frank Morgan
Francis Phillip Wuppermann (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949), known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous sound ...
as Dr. Anton King
*Henry Travers
Travers John Heagerty (5 March 1874 – 18 October 1965), known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor. His best known role was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film ''It's a Wonderful Life' ...
as Father Krug
*May Robson
Mary Jeanette Robison (19 April 1858 – 20 October 1942), known professionally as May Robson, was an Australian-born American-based actress whose career spanned 58 years, starting in 1883 when she was 25. A major stage actress of the late 19t ...
as Frau Lucher
*Eduardo Ciannelli
Eduardo Ciannelli (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. He was sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli.
Early life
Ciannelli ...
as Pofferoff
*Una Merkel
Una Merkel (December 10, 1903 – January 2, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress.
Merkel was born in Kentucky and acted on stage in New York in the 1920s. She went to Hollywood in 1930 and became a popular film ...
as Ilsa Hinrich
*Bodil Rosing
Bodil Rosing (born Bodil Frederikke Hammerich; December 27, 1877 December 31, 1941) was a Danish-American film actress in the silent and sound eras.
Early years
Bodil Hammerich was born in Copenhagen, the daughter of music dean Angel Hammeri ...
as Kathie (Krug family's maid)
*Bela Loblov as Musician
*Morris Nussbaum as Musician
*Nella Walker
Nella Walker (March 6, 1886 – March 22, 1971) was an American actress and vaudeville performer of the 1920s through the 1950s.
Biography
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker, she was born and raised in Chicago. In 1910, she marrie ...
as Countess Von Stainz
*Hebert Evans as Count Von Stainz
;Unbilled
*Morris Ankrum
Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum; August 28, 1897 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television, and film character actor.
Early life
Born in Danville in Vermilion County in eastern Illinois, Ankrum originally began a career in ...
as Bit Role
*Symona Boniface
Symona Ferner Boniface (March 5, 1894 – September 2, 1950) was an American film actress, most frequently seen in bit parts in comedy shorts, mostly at Columbia Pictures, particularly those of '' The Three Stooges''. She appeared in 120 fi ...
as Noblewoman
* John Davidson as Officer
* George Davis as Waiter
*Ferdinand Gottschalk
Ferdinand Gottschalk (28 February 1858 – 10 November 1944) was an English theatre and film actor. He appeared in 76 films between 1917 and 1938. He was born and died in London, England.
He made his first appearance on the stage in Toronto ...
as tour guide
*Tenen Holtz
Tenen Holtz (born Alex Elihu Tenenholtz; February 17, 1887 – July 1, 1971) was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 60 films between 1926 and 1961.
Biography
Holtz was born in Imperial Russia, and came to the United States when he wa ...
as Tourist with Drapes
*Alphonse Maartell as Nobleman
* Torben Meyer as Headwaiter Strumpf
*Edmund Mortimer as Tourist
*Paul Porcasi as Chef
* Lucien Prival as Colline, Waiter
*Edward Reinach as Aristocrat
*Tom Ricketts
Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage actor, stage and motion picture, film actor and film director, director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the fi ...
as Nobleman
*Rolfe Sedan
Rolfe Sedan (born Edward Sedan; January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postmen, cooks, waiters, etc.
Ea ...
as Valet
*Anders Van Haden as Aristocrat
*Ellinor Vanderveer as Noblewoman
*Dorothy Vernon as Tourist
*William von Hardenburg as Aristocrat
Box office
The film grossed a total (domestic and foreign) of $643,000: $379,000 from the US and Canada and $264,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $134,000.
It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
References
External links
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''Reunion in Vienna''; allmovie.com / synopsis
1933 films
American films based on plays
Films directed by Sidney Franklin
American romantic drama films
1933 romantic drama films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films set in Vienna
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
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