Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa, her visiting sister, Bessie, arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.
Title | Our Betters |
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Year | 1933 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | RKO Radio Pictures |
Cast | Constance Bennett, Violet Kemble Cooper, Phoebe Foster, Grant Mitchell, Charles Starrett, Anita Louise |
Crew | George Cukor (Director), Jane Murfin (Screenplay), Harry Wagstaff Gribble (Screenplay), David O. Selznick (Producer), Charles Rosher (Director of Photography), W. Somerset Maugham (Theatre Play) |
Keyword | gigolo, sister, royalty, wedding, heiress, pre-code, kept woman, kept man |
Release | Mar 17, 1933 |
Runtime | 83 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 5.40 / 10 by 11 users |