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Director
  
Frank Borzage

Music director
  
Franz Waxman

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Producer
  
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Jane Murfin
,
Ogden Nash

Release date
  
November 18, 1938 (1938-11-18)

Cast
  
Joan Crawford
(Olivia Riley),
Margaret Sullavan
(Judy Linden),
Robert Young
(David Linden),
Melvyn Douglas
(Henry Linden),
Hattie McDaniel
(Belvedere),
Fay Bainter
(Hannah Linden)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
Joan's a Dancing Bride

The Shining Hour is a 1938 MGM film directed by Frank Borzage, based on the 1934 play The Shining Hour by Keith Winter, and starring Joan Crawford and Margaret Sullavan. The supporting cast features Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter and Hattie McDaniel.

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Plot

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Olivia Riley (Joan Crawford), a New York City nightclub dancer, tires of the fast life and consents to marry Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), a wealthy farmer from Wisconsin. Even before they engage to be married, however, Henry's brother David (Robert Young) is sent to New York by their domineering sister Hannah (Fay Bainter) to dissuade him from marrying Olivia. In private, Olivia slaps David when her integrity is questioned, but she marries Henry because she says he's the only person in her life who is endlessly positive. When Olivia moves to her new husband's farm in Wisconsin, she encounters trouble from her sister-in-law Hannah, who does not approve of her. Olivia finds an ally in David's wife, Judy (Margaret Sullavan), who is in a loveless marriage.

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Olivia comes to realize that she and Judy are in the same situation. Olivia's situation is further complicated when David defends her from the unwanted advances of a farm hand and he begins to fall in love with her. Henry is unaware of this, but when Hannah finds out what is going on, she sets fire to the home in a drunken rage. Olivia saves a badly burned Judy, and David realizes he has loved Judy after all. Olivia then decides to leave the farm; and, as she drives away, Henry joins her and they leave together.

Box office

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According to MGM records the film earned $942,000 in the US and Canada and $425,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $137,000.


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References

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