Joan Crawford and Brian Aherne in “I Live My Life”

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 65, 18 March 1936, Page 11

Joan Crawford and Brian Aherne in “I Live My Life”

SPARKLING NEW ROMANCE HAS ACE SUPPORTING CAST

g (Regent: Screening■ Saturday Week.) Joali Crawford and: W. S. Van Dyke, the star and director who collaborated with such success to rnako • ‘Forsaking All Others’' arc united again in Metro-Goidwyn-Mayer’s 7 new vehicle for the glamorous actress, ‘‘l Live.My Lite.” Brian Aherne, the English actor, is Joan Crawford’s leading man in the virile role of a; flard-boiled archae-ologist-who. falls in love with a society girl. \

Frank Morgan appears as Joan Gfaw ford’s father in a role similar .to 1 the one he played in “Naughty Marietta.” Aline MacMahon, the “Brooklyn Duse’ ’ is prominently cast in the humorous part of the "other.girl.” Erie Blore, the eccentric waiter of “Gay Divorcee,” is the omni-present butler in tho new picture. Fred Keating, tho Broadway star, plays the archaeologist's rivaL Also in the giant cast line-up Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Iledda Hopper, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway and others of like status. Tho picture is based on A. Carter Goodloe’s prize-winning short story, “Claustrophobia,” and deals with thf romance of a sophisticated debutant'

and a horny-handed young archaeologist. Tho drama hinges on his efforts to live a sky-scraper life in' New York in order to be near the girl he loves, and its eventual effect upon him, Joseph Mankiedicz wrote the screen play. Gottfried Reinhardt aud Etliei B. Borden collaborated on the adaptation.

The localo of the picture shifts between the exotic Greek island of Naxos, where the lovers meet, New York City, and a Connecticut estate.

Lavish settings are up to the recognised standard of Art Director Cedric Gibbons and his associate, E. B. Willis. Many of these are exteriors, construct-ed-high above the glittering shores of Catalina Island, to which the company journeyed on location. Adrian has designed more than a dozen new ensembles, worn as only Joan Crawford can wear them.

Bing Crosby, who plays a stowaway aboard an ocean liner in Paramount’s “Anything Goes,” once started to run away from his home in Spokane, Washington, out got hungry as darkness felt and went back In dinner.