Charming Sinners

Charming Sinners

66 mins | Drama | Aug. 17, 1929

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.

Charming Sinners

66 mins | Drama | Aug. 17, 1929

Charming Sinners
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Paramount
Original title Charming Sinners
Directors Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner
Writers Doris Anderson, W. Somerset Maugham

Cast

Ruth Chatterton

as Kathryn Miles

Clive Brook

as Robert Miles

Mary Nolan

as Anne-Marie Whitley

William Powell

as Karl Kraley

Laura Hope Crews

as Mrs. Carr

Florence Eldridge

as Helen Carr

Montagu Love

as George Whitley

Juliette Crosby

as Margaret

Lorraine MacLean

as Alice

Claud Allister

as Gregson