The Age of Innocence

The Age of InnocenceA beautiful divorce. An ardent young man. And a love thwarted by a rigid social code. Irene Dunne and John Boles, the stars of Back Street, share another illicit romance in this film version of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winner, a provocative novel that asserts women have a right to the same freedoms men take for granted. Set in 1870s Manhattan, The Age of Innocence follows a conventionally bred attorney who, although engaged, falls in love with a

still breathtaking 42 years after her film debut

Complications abound in this racy Pre-Code farce that also includes a wacky set of friends and servants

`50s screen idol Tab Hunter stars as Thad Walker

Such a role is The Woman in Red's Shelby Barret

Then tragedy strikes

Among the Delano brood is reckless mama's boy a Harry

fall in love to a hit parade of Vincent Youmans tunes

Johnny Mack Brown

a trumpet player in Heaven's orchestra

red-haired MacDonald was born for Technicolor®

Though he never quite believes she's telling the truth about his inheritance

Suggested by Dorothy Caruso's biography of her husband