Our Betters (1933)
"Marriage Is So Dull and Middleclass!"
83 min
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa, her visiting sister, Bessie, arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.
- Release date
- March 17, 1933
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Constance Bennett as Lady Pearl Grayston
- Violet Kemble Cooper as Duchess
- Phoebe Foster as Princess
- Grant Mitchell as Thornton Clay
- Charles Starrett as Fleming Harvey
- Anita Louise as Bessie
- Gilbert Roland as Pepi D'Costa
- Minor Watson as Arthur Fenwick
- Hugh Sinclair as Lord Bleane
- Alan Mowbray as Lord George Grayston
Crew
- George Cukor · Director
- W. Somerset Maugham · Writer
- Jane Murfin · Writer
- Harry Wagstaff Gribble · Writer
- David O. Selznick · Producer
- Charles Rosher · Cinematographer
- Jack Kitchin · Editor