A WIFE’S PROBLEM
A new light comedy team makes
its debut in “The First Hundred Years,” which is coming to the Avon, in the persons of Robert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce. Montgomery, who achieved his screen reputation in this
Modern Story in “The First Hundred Years”
type of domestic comedy drama, comes to the new picture after his work in the highly successful “Live, Love, and Learn.” Virginia Bruce appears with him for the first time and receives one of her best acting opportunities as the wife who refuses to give up a remunerative career to make a home for her husband.
As Virginia Bruce’s partner in a New York theatrical agency, Warren William returns to the debonair note he struck in such films as “The Dark Horse” and the Perry Mason stories. Also featured in the supporting cast are Binnie Barnes, in the role of a predatory actress with designs on Montgomery; Alan Dinehart. as the lawyer retained by William for Virginia Bruce; Harry Davenport, Nydia Westman, E. E. Clive, Torben Meyer, Bodil Rosing, and Irving Bacon.
Richard Thorpe, who achieved fame for his direction of “Night Must Fall,” in which Montgomery also starred, and who followed with three comedies, “Double Wedding,” “Man-Proof,” and “Love is a Headache," directed “The First Hundred Years.” Norman Krasna who produced “Big City” from his own original story, also produced this picture. “The First Hundred Years” is a modern domestic comedy-drama with a New York locale, based on the problems that arise when a wife who has a successful and established career as a New York theatrical agent, cannot bear the thought of relinquishing her independence and her financial and professional background to make a home for a husband who earns considerably less money than she does. The entire action takes place in modernistic settings including the wife's impressive office, her apartment, two up-to-the-minute night clubs, the Newark airport, a Superior Court judge's chambers, and a New Bedford shipyard,
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22597, 30 December 1938, Page 7
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