Strictly Unconventional

Strictly Unconventional

55 mins | Drama | May 3, 1930

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.

Strictly Unconventional

55 mins | Drama | May 3, 1930

Strictly Unconventional
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
IMDb rating 5.2
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Strictly Unconventional
Directors David Burton
Writers W. Somerset Maugham, Frank Butler, Sylvia Thalberg

Cast

Catherine Dale Owen

as Elizabeth

Paul Cavanagh

as Ted

Tyrell Davis

as Arnold Champion-Cheney - M.P.

Lewis Stone

as Clive Champion-Cheney

Ernest Torrence

as Lord Porteous

Alison Skipworth

as Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney

Mary Forbes

as Mrs. Anna Shenstone

Wilfred Noy

as Butler

William H. O'Brien

as Footman

Vera Lewis

as Duchess of Brocklehurst

Edgar Norton

as Party Guest

Frank Reicher

as Duke of Brocklehurst

Clarence Wilson

as George - Ted's Valet

Herschel Graham

as Party Guest (uncredited)