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Strange Interlude

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Strange Interlude

"AN AFTERNOON OF HAPPINESS...that became a LIFETIME OF LIES!"

1932

1h 49m

5.6(13 votes)

Drama

Overview

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.

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Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Nina Leeds

Clark Gable

Clark Gable

Dr. Ned Darrell

Alexander Kirkland

Alexander Kirkland

Sam Evans

Ralph Morgan

Ralph Morgan

Charlie Marsden

Robert Young

Robert Young

Gordon Evans as a young man

May Robson

May Robson

Mrs. Evans

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Madeline Arnold

Henry B. Walthall

Henry B. Walthall

Professor Leeds

Mary Alden

Mary Alden

Mary, Leeds' Maid

Tad Alexander

Tad Alexander

Gordon Evans as a child

Creative team

Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Written by: C. Gardner Sullivan
Bess Meredyth
Produced by: Irving Thalberg

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