Riptide

Riptide

92 mins | Drama, Romance | March 29, 1934

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.

Riptide

92 mins | Drama, Romance | March 29, 1934

Riptide
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Riptide
Directors Edmund Goulding
Writers Edmund Goulding, Ben Hecht

Cast

Norma Shearer

as Lady Mary Rexford

Robert Montgomery

as Tommie L. Trent

Herbert Marshall

as Lord Philip Rexford

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

as Aunt Hetty Riversleigh

Ralph Forbes

as David Fenwick

Lilyan Tashman

as Sylvia Wilson

Earl Oxford

as Freddie Gray

Helen Jerome Eddy

as Celeste

George K. Arthur

as Bertie Davis

Halliwell Hobbes

as Bollard

Phyllis Coghlan

as Nurse

Marilyn Spinner

as Pamela Rexford

Howard Chaldecott

as Ransome

Bruce Bennett

as Man at Cannes Bar (uncredited)

Walter Brennan

as Chauffeur (uncredited)

E. E. Clive

as Major Mills (uncredited)

Art Jarrett

as Percy