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The Secret Of Madame Blanche (1933)

• Director
  • Charles Brabin
• Writers
  • Frances Goodrich(screen play)
  • Albert Hackett(screen play)
  • Martin Brown(from the play: "The Lady" by)
• Stars
  • Irene Dunne
  • Lionel Atwill
  • Phillips Holmes

  Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons. Irene Dunne stars as a musical hall entertainer who is impregnated by a wealthy young man (Phillips Holmes). They marry, but the husband kills himself. Under the pressure of father-in-law Lionel Atwill, Dunne gives up the baby. Two decades pass: Irene crosses her son' path again. He commits a murder, and she willingly takes the blame--never letting the boy know her true identity. Secret of Madame Blanche is a remake of an equally teary Norma Talmadge silent film; both pictures bore the heavy influence of Madame X.