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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.
- (280)
- Drama, Romance
- Charles Brabin
- 1932-06-04
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- (3)
- Robert Young
- Charles Brabin
- Metrogoldwynmayer
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
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.
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man. Charles Brabin.
