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The Marriage Playground is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes, and written by Doris Anderson, J. Walter Ruben, and Edith Wharton. The film stars Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon, Kay Francis, William Austin, Seena Owen and Gene Raymond.
The Marriage Playground: Directed by Lothar Mendes. With Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon. A husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced.
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Directed by Lothar Mendes. Based on “The Children,” a novel by Edith Wharton. Screenplay by J. Walter Ruben. Dialogue by Doris Anderson. Camera by Victor Milner. A Paramount Picture. Released December 13, 1929. About the film:
Directed by Lothar Mendes. Palm Beach love. The wedding march. The divorce judge’s gavel. Who pays the piper? A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe.
The Marriage Playground is the product of a very short and particular period in the history of the film industry: after the development and proliferation of the "talkie" in 1927, but just before the institution of the first Hays Production Code in 1930.
When he leaves, Judith despairs, feeling that he regards her as only a child, and she decides to take the children to Switzerland; there Martin realizes he loves her, and when Wheater, repenting of his neglect, telephones him to bring the children back, Martin declares that he is marrying Judith and will himself care for the children.
