While golfing, Natalie Marshall meets and falls in love with Bobby Cameron, and after a brief courtship they are married. Just as they are about to embark on their honeymoon, Vera, a young vamp with designs on Bobby, presents Natalie with a bracelet and an accompanying note and inscription that arouse the wife's jealousy and cause an immediate break between the couple.


Picture a society that has only just begun to whisper the word divorce without clutching its pearls, then watch All's Fair in Love detonate that whisper into a primal scream. Released at the height of jazz-age vertigo, this 1923 First National programmer masquerades as a featherweight romantic comedy, yet beneath its...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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" Picture a society that has only just begun to whisper the word divorce without clutching its pearls, then watch All's Fair in Love detonate that whisper into a primal scream. Released at the height of jazz-age vertigo, this 1923 First National programmer masquerades as a featherweight romantic comedy, yet beneath its lacquered surface writhes an almost clinical study of erotic possession, female self-objectification, and the masculine terror of emotional candor. Director William K. Howard—stil..."
Stuart Holmes
Arthur F. Statter, Thompson Buchanan
United States

