Our Betters (1933)

Our Betters

“Our Betters wants to both titillate us with its tale of the idle rich and their different rules for love, marriage, and society while finger wagging over amorality. It wants to build up its main character, an American socialite who married into the British upper class, while also slut shaming her to an absurd degree. Too wooden, too meandering, and populated by actors who can’t find the right undertone of frivolity-meets-acid, Our Betters is a misfire from George Cukor, a sophist director who seemed attuned to this material on paper.   There’s not much in the way of an actual plot so much as a series of vignettes loosely tied together around themes of love sought for convenience, either economic, social, or desperation (often a combination) but never from a place of love. Constance ” read more

“So precode and adult, in spite of a semi washed up ending. Anita Louise goes pure to America, Constance Bennett remains happy and cinic in her way in England.” read more