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New Morals for Old is a 1932 American pre-Code romance-drama film produced and distributed by MGM. It is based on the 1931 Broadway play After All, in which Humphrey Bogart had a significant role. Bogart's stage role is portrayed by David Newell in the film.
New Morals for Old: Directed by Charles Brabin. With Robert Young, Margaret Perry, Lewis Stone, Laura Hope Crews. A single mother struggles to raise her son and daughter, who find it difficult to listen to her life lessons.
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- Drama, Romance
- Charles Brabin
- 1932-06-04
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New Morals for Old was one picture she made during this casting-about period, a light, jaunty drama about the Jazz Age comings and goings of a sister (Margaret Perry) and brother (Robert Young) whose parents (Lewis Stone and Laura Hope Crews) cluck in disapproval at this modern morality.
- Charles Brabin, Al Shenberg
- Robert Young
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- Robert Young
- Charles Brabin
- Metrogoldwynmayer
16 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 5/10. the circle of life precode style. AlsExGal 24 December 2012. This is a very ordinary precode involving the wealthy Thomases. The parents (Lewis Stone and Laura Hope Crews) are worried about their two grown children.
In an ironic coda, the younger people eventually marry, settle down, and become moralistic fuddy-duddies themselves. New Morals for Old was based on the John Van Druten play After All, which was set in London and thus added class consciousness to the basic generation-gap theme.
