Honor Among Lovers

Claudette Colbert is caught between two men in Arzner’s cynical play on sex and class.

  • Director

    Dorothy Arzner

  • With

    Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley, Charlie Ruggles, Ginger Rogers

  • USA 1931. 75min

  • 35mm

Here, Arzner’s instinct for story, casting and visuals are employed at the service of some of the era’s finest actors. Her third collaboration with Fredric March proved her star-making skills worked for men too. Businessman Jerry is in love with his secretary Julia and what begins as an office romance evolves into a love triangle with dangerous consequences. Arzner cynically plays on sex and social class distinctions to satisfying effect.

35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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