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Upperworld is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Warren William as a wealthy married railroad tycoon whose friendship with a showgirl, played by Ginger Rogers, leads to blackmail and murder.
Upperworld: Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine. A rich man (Warren William) starts an affair with a showgirl (Ginger Rogers), and when the girl's manager (J. Carrol Naish), finds out, he decides to blackmail him.
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- Crime, Drama, Music
- Roy Del Ruth
- 1934-04-28
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Brief Synopsis. A wealthy man escapes his wife's social pretensions in the arms of a burlesque queen.
- Roy Del Ruth
- Warren William
- Upperworld: Taking It from The Top
- Mary Astor: Most Certainly in This Film
- Proof That It’S Pre-Code
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I’ve watched a number of movies from 1934 now, but it still surprises me how completely schizoid many of them are. A few months ago I talked about Search for Beauty, a film that painfully embodied both the sleazier aspects of the Pre-Code era as well as the holier-than-though moral attitude that came to define the films in the last half of the deca...
I picked this movie to discuss for the Mary Astor Blog-A-Thon hosted by R.A. at Silver Screenings and Dorian at Tales for the Easily Distracted. Astor is second listed in the cast, and even gets a number of fun outfits And that’s about all I’ve got for her. She plays the dutiful but frivolous wife, and does about the best that can be done with such...
A very blatant extramarital affair is at the center of the story.The murders in the film aren’t gory or horrific, though showing how Stream tried to get away with it would be a no-no later on.Skeezy Lou smacks Lilly around when she pulls a gun on him. From my readings, Ginger Rogers fans don’t seem to like this very much.Lastly, the Burlesque show is really… burlesque-y. Here they are rocking out to “Shake Your Powder Puff”:As noted above, this post is a part of the Mary Astor Blog-A-Thon, which probably has many much more distinctive entries about Astor herself available.
Upperworld is a schizophrenic movie that mixes Pre-Code immorality and primness. It follows a tycoon's affair, murder, and coverup, but shifts gears to blame his wife and the cop who tries to catch him.
A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him — she’s too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. This are going OK until the girl’s manager/boyfriend, seeing his chance to make some big money, decides to blackmail him….
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Millionaire railroad baron Alex Stream (Warren William) is drifting apart from his wife, Hettie (Mary Astor), who devotes her attention to climbing the social ladder. While sailing his yacht, Alex saves burlesque performer Lilly Linda (Ginger Rogers) from drowning, and the two become friends.
