Evelyn Prentice (Myrna Loy) adores her husband John (William Powell), but John is an attorney and often has to work long hours and travel for work. Lately, he’s been hard at work defending Mrs. Harrison (Rosalind Russell) and Evelyn really misses spending time with her husband. One night, read more
US / 79 minutes / bw / Cosmopolitan, MGM Dir: William K. Howard Pr: John W. Considine Jr. Scr: Lenore Coffee Story: Evelyn Prentice (1933) by W.E. Woodward Cine: Charles G. Clarke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell, Isabel Jewell, Harvey Stephens, Edward Brophy, Henry Wads read more
A friend of mine watched the last 20 or so minutes of Evelyn Prentice with me, and only watching that brief snippet made him angry. Try watching it for over an hour! Evelyn Prentice is a soppy melodrama warning husbands that unless they love (and therefore spending every waking minute) with their read more
Evelyn Prentice Directed by William K. Howard 1934/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) First Viewing Lawrence Kennard: Then why are you here? Evelyn Prentice: There’s nothing safe with a man like you. Engaging “women’s picture”/courtroom drama. John Prentice (William Powell read more
My single Black Friday 2012 purchase was the TCM Spotlight: Myrna Loy and William Powell boxed set from shop.tcm.com – I got it at a whopping 60% off! The set contains five films I hadn’t seen before (though I was, of course, a fan of both Loy and Powell from The Thin Man series and the read more
Evelyn Prentice (1934). Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel and Rosalind Russell in her film debut. The third of fourteen films pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy. The movie was based on the 1933 novel of the same name by W. E. Woodward.
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Evelyn Prentice only runs eighty minutes, but it goes on forever. At seventeen minutes alone, it’s getting tiring. The big problem is the lack of thoughtful approach. It’s constantly revealing big twists, twists to shock the audience, but they just end up detracting from the film’ read more
