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Directed by Roy Del Ruth Initial release 5 June 1936 Production company 20th Century Fox | 6.9/10 IMDb Cinematography J. Peverell Marley Director Roy Del Ruth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Raymond Griffith
Darryl F. Zanuck Written by Cleves Kinkead (play)
William M. Conselman
Gene Markey Starring Loretta Young
Robert Taylor
Basil Rathbone
Patsy Kelly
Joe E. Lewis Music by Louis Silvers
Cyril J. Mockridge Screenplay Gene Markey, William Conselman Music director Cyril J. Mockridge, Louis Silvers Cast Loretta Young, Robert Taylor, Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Jane Darwell Similar Loretta Young movies, Romance movies, Other similar movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Private Number is a 1936 American drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone. It is sometimes known by the alternative title of Secret Interlude. It was based on the play Common Clay by Cleves Kinkead which had previously been made into a film of the same name in 1930. Following the more rigorous enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code after 1934, many of the more salacious elements of the earlier film were left out.
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Ellen Neal is hired as servant in the house of the wealthy Winfield family by the butler, Thomas Wroxton, who covets her romantically. Wroxton rules the household staff like a tyrant, demanding a large cut of their weekly wages as his "commission". To his great irritation, Neal resists his advances. Instead, during the family's vacation in New England she becomes romantically involved with the Winfields' son, Richard, who is a college student. They secretly marry and she falls pregnant by him before he returns to college. When the Winfields are told by a vengeful Wroxton that she is pregnant they are initially sympathetic until discovering that the child is their own grandson. A prolonged divorce suit then follows until the couple are finally reconciled.