The Marriage Circle

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Creighton Hale and Florence Vidor in The Marriage Circle (1924)

Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.

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7.0/10

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Nasty Women and Dumb Men

I found The Marriage Circle pretty annoying more for the characters than the acting.

Annoying Mizzi (Marie Prevost) is in a bad marriage to Adolphe Menjou so she decides to go after her friend's doctor husband (Monte Blue) by constantly calling for his services by pretending to be sick. The whole premise here is that the vamp has only to bat an eyelash or drop a shoulder strap and the dopey man falls to his knees enslaved. Monte is married to Florence Vidor and his business associate (Creighton Hale) is mad for her. But Flo loves Monte ... until she suspects he may be playing around (which he is not). The more Monte resists Marie, the more determined she becomes to land him.

Round and round it goes with Marie inserting herself in Monte's life while dumb Flo thinks he's after Miss Hofer (Esther Ralston). The whole conceit is based on no one's being able to see the obvious. This might seem like a sly sex romp but Marie's character is just not likable nor are we ever given any reason for her disdain of Adolphe.

Mizzi should have been tossed out on her ear after causing all this trouble.

An excellent score by the Mont Alto group.

drednm
Oct 18, 2021
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Motion Picture Magazine (February-July 1924): 'In making the kissing scene in "The Marriage Circle," where the dutiful wife smacks another man other than her husband by mistake, Herr Lubitsch made Florence Vidor and Creighton Hale repeat the event exactly thirty-nine times before the kiss was right. Florence is a very lovely lady, but... well, thirty-nine times!'

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On the letter that Dr. Braun writes asking Mizzi to choose another doctor, the printed address on Dr. Braun's stationery misspells Vienna as "Wein"; it is correctly printed as "Wien" as a return address on the envelope of the same letter.