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The Marriage Circle (1924)
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The tone is set from the opening scene as Lubitsch effortlessly sets up the duality of one perfectly happy marriage contrasted with another couple in a perpetual state of grimly endured misalliance.
"The day starts late but gloriously in the home of Professor Josef Stock," announces a title.A desultory Adolphe Menjou gets dressed, only to discover that there are holes in his socks.Menjou reacts with what even then was his trademarked frozen sang-froid, a dead non-expression but without his customary lightness in the eyes and around the mouth.
Stock's wife, Mizzi, among other failings, is a slovenly housekeeper.Mizzi convinces herself that she's in love w | | |
