This Modern Age
"Beautiful Joan as a Daughter of Today coming face to face with the stern realities of life and love for the first time!"
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
"Beautiful Joan as a Daughter of Today coming face to face with the stern realities of life and love for the first time!"
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Joan Crawford
Valentine 'Val' Winters
Pauline Frederick
Diane 'Di' Winters
Neil Hamilton
Robert 'Bob' Blake Jr.
Monroe Owsley
Tony Girard
Albert Conti
André de Graignon
Hobart Bosworth
Robert Blake Sr.
Emma Dunn
Margaret Blake
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Marie
Marcelle Corday
Alyce
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.
A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.