Genre	Comedy :: Drama
Date Released	12 December 1931
Production	Wolper Productions
Distribution	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

Amanda: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there`s no knowing what one mightn`t do. That was the trouble with Elyot and me, we were like two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle.

Elyot: What are you doing here? Amanda: I`m on my honeymoon. Elyot: Hope you`re enjoying it. Amanda: It hasn`t started yet. Elyot: Neither has mine.

Amanda: Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Amanda: Have you known her long? Elyot: About four months, we met in a house party in Norfolk. Amanda: Very flat, Norfolk.

Elyot Chase: You don`t hold any mystery for me darling; do you mind? There isn`t a part of you I don`t know, remember, and want.

Amanda: I was brought up to believe it was beyond the pale for a man to strike a woman. Elyot: A very poor tradition. Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Trivia

The original play opened in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and starred Noel Coward (who also directed), Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Adrianne Allen. After a 5-week tour of England, it opened a scheduled 3-month engagement in London on 24 September 1930, after which it came to Broadway, New York City, on 27 January 1931 and ran for 256 performances, closing in September 1931. Jill Esmond replaced Allen in New York for the role of Sybil. The very popular play had 6 Broadway revivals alone, the last in 2002, and is continually revived the world over.

Glacier Bay Park in Montana doubled for the Swiss Alps in the film`s mountain climbing scene.

Robert Montgomery was accidentally knocked unconscious during the fight scene with Norma Shearer.

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