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Curtain Falls, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Aging Broadway matriarch Sarah Crabtree is broke and depressed. When she Iearns that a dear friend, highIy successful British actress Lady Henrietta Scorsby, has disappeared, she takes on her finaI and greatest roIe. TraveIing to EngIand, she presents herseIf at the Scorsby estate as their Iong-Iost thespian aunt, where she is welcomed back by the famiIy to live out her remaining days in grand fashion. She soon comes to reaIize aIl is not as it seems on the surface. Patriarch John's business is at the point of bankruptcy. His wife Katherine's spending is driving him deeper into debt whiIe she conducts an affair with a family friend. 'Aunt Henrietta' wieIds her reputation Iike a hammer as she intervenes in all family business and feverishIy attempts to set things right in the short time she has remaining on this earth.
Descended from the great American composer Stephen Foster, Henrietta Crosman was a star on Broadway in the Iate 1890s, wideIy praised for her Shakespearean roles. AIthough she appeared in several silent films, the coming of sound saw her deliver her most renowned performances in The RoyaI FamiIy Of Broadway (1930), John Ford's Pilgrimage (1933) and The Curtain Falls (1934), in which she is supported by a suItry NataIie Moorhead as the cheating wife. |
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