White Shoulders

White Shoulders (1931)

In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When not attending to her every need, the business magnate works his mines so he can buy her some more. While he is gone, a gigolo makes advances upon her.

Date of release
1931-05-17
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama
Director
Melville W. Brown

Casting

Interesting facts

White Shoulders is a lost 1931 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Melville W. Brown and starring Mary Astor and Jack Holt, with major supporting roles by Ricardo Cortez and Sidney Toler. The film was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and J. Walter Ruben was adapted from Rex Beach's short story, The Recoil.

Production

Rex Beach wrote a short story, "The Recoil", which appeared in the November 1922 issue of Cosmopolitan. It was optioned by Goldwyn Pictures, which produced a silent film of the same name in 1924. RKO acquired the rights for the story, along with two other Beach stories, The Slander Girl and Young Donovan's Kid, and in October 1930 it was added to their production schedule.

By the beginning of March, Brown had finalized the main members of his cast. He asked fellow director and screenwriter Howard Estabrook to take the script and clean and tighten it, although he was given no screen credit for his efforts. By the middle of the month, Brown had the cast in rehearsals, and began filming by March 22. After filming had commenced, Brown added the final two cast members, Nicholas Soussanin and Robert Keith.

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