Word: miljanic
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...this point the audience gasps in total surprise, morally convicting the brother of first-degree murder. The picture, how ever, proceeds to show the audience its error, in the courtroom. A novelty is Prosecutor John Miljan's jeering speech: "There is no such law as the unwritten law. . . . Our legislators do not say : 'This is the law but we will not annoy the governor by writing it down.' ... A woman's honor is her own and the shortest word in the English language will protect any woman's honor, and that word...
...among the serious rich. It is also any egocentric woman's dream of the life she would like to be able to look back on. Ruth Chatterton, as one of the richest women in the world, resists her hero (George Brent) to be true to her husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce and is gallant by transatlantic telephone. Men try to forget her but cannot. She fights...
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