"ESCAPADE."
Stars, romance, music, gaiety, laughter, and drama all mingle in a new and unique blend of screen entertainment in "Escapade," a new romance of Vienna. It captures Continental flavour and music, and puts them on the screen in a story with unusual dramatic twists that keep the audience in a constant state of surprises. Through the deft handling of the story every entertainment, from drama to music, is packed into a single evening. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, which stars William Powell and introduces Luise Rainer, brilliant Vienna stage star, as his leading lady, has a notable cast. Frank Morgan, of "Affairs of Cellini" and "Naughty Marietta," plays the jealous doctor, and blonde Virginia Bruce, his flirtatious ' wife who gets Powell into a multiplicity of comical complications. Mady Christians, European star of "The Waltz Dream," is his jealous sweetheart, and Reginald Owen plays the absent-minded musician lover. The story deals with a debonair and lionised artist, played by Powell, who falls in love, through complications over a painting of another man's wife, with the demure companion of a countess. With a jealous doctor, a former sweetheart and a flirtatious wife on his hands, he tries to balance the whole structure while progressing on a rocky road of true love. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 21
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214"ESCAPADE." Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 21
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