Counsellor at Law

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Counsellor at Law

film by Wyler [1933]

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John Barrymore
… (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Counsellor-at-Law (1933), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and The Great Profile (1940), in which he lampooned his own image. Though his talents were prodigious and he was considered one of the greatest and handsomest actors of the the silent and early talkie eras of film, Barrymore…
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… (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Counsellor-at-Law (1933), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and The Great Profile (1940), in which he lampooned his own image. Though his talents were prodigious and he was considered one of the greatest and handsomest actors of the the silent and early talkie eras of film, Barrymore…
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William Wyler
Films of the 1930s
Considerably more distinguished was Counsellor at Law (1933), a bold-for-its-time examination of anti-Semitism that was adapted by Elmer Rice from his own play and starred John Barrymore. Wyler followed the melodrama Glamour (1934) with the comedy The Good Fairy (1935), a clever adaptation of a Ferenc Molnár play
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Considerably more distinguished was Counsellor at Law (1933), a bold-for-its-time examination of anti-Semitism that was adapted by Elmer Rice from his own play and starred John Barrymore. Wyler followed the melodrama Glamour (1934) with the comedy The Good Fairy (1935), a clever adaptation of a Ferenc Molnár play
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