source: Strangers May Kiss

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Strangers May Kiss

I loved this movie! Shearer is terrific, though I could pretty much see where it was going towards the end. I thought that some of the dialogue was quite ahead of it's time. It was great fun to watch! Norma Shearer fascinates me. I think she is a wonderful actress, and Robert Young was just charming! It was amusing how no character ever really utters any specifics as to Lisbeth's behavior, but I find that refreshing! You get the message. I also liked that Lisbeth valued her lovers criticism of her "bad" behavior, even though he was pretty much of a hypocrite. She still knew what was important in a marriage. I recommend this picture to all.

Here we are, The Divorcee. Wait- it's A Free Soul. Or maybe Private Lives (that one was actually the best of all these)? Riptide, perhaps? Let Us Be Gay? No, wait, it's Strangers May Kiss. But it may as well be one of the other ones- they (for the most part) have pretty much the same plot, and vary in quality from rather good to terrible. This one is nothing special. Norma Falls for a caddish cad when she could have Robert Montgomery the drunken caddish cad. The double standard is real, folks. The best part of this film is seeing Norma Shearer in a sombrero. The rest of the film is mundane and uninteresting- but if you're a diehard Shearer fan (Shearermaniac? Is that what they're called), you're probably goingnto like it. I'm quite a large fan of her myself, but I hated this movie. Well, not hated. But I wouldn't reccomend it. It's not exactly an underrated classic. (IMDb, let us put half stars for our ratings already) I give this one 5.5/10.

This movie was pure soap opera for 1931 audiences. Today it's rather "talkie" and the moral standards of the film by today's liberal standards are laughable. But the great Norma Shearer is always fun to watch, and Norma never looked better on the screen. Her Adrian designed gowns are breathtaking and she is nothing short of ravishing.

Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery made several films together and this one is not very well known. It's easily at the bottom of the films they made together like Private Lives and Riptide. This one stars off with Shearer and Montgomery as good friends and Shearer is engaged to marry Neil Hamilton. Hamilton is clearly a lowlife who doesn't even pretend to be faithful to Shearer. Montgomery knows this but Shearer won't believe it at first. Shearer then winds up going off to Mexico and then Europe where she does whatever she feels like. Hamilton finds her and tells her that he loves her and she is confused. The ending isn't very good like Leonard Maltin says in his review.