Their Own Desire
About Their Own Desire
Lally’s father, after 23 years of marriage, is divorcing her mother to marry Beth Cheever. Lally wants nothing to do with men. On holiday with her mother she falls for Jack, then learns he is Beth’s son.
Cast & crew
More about Their Own Desire
E. Mason Hopper directed. Frances Marion wrote the screenplay with James Forbes on the dialogue, and Lucille Newmark wrote the titles, from the 1929 novel by Sarita Fuller, a pen name of Beulah Marie Dix. Irving Thalberg produced. William H. Daniels photographed it and William Axt wrote the music. MGM released it on 27 December 1929. It was the last MGM film of the 1920s.
Themes
Making
Thalberg produced it at MGM with Shearer, his wife, in the last month of 1929.
Music
William Axt composed the music. Lucille Newmark wrote the intertitles.
Notes
- Norma Shearer plays Lally. Robert Montgomery plays Jack. Lewis Stone is her father. Belle Bennett is her mother. Helene Millard is also billed.
- Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and lost to her own performance in The Divorcee.
- Harry Reynolds edited.
- Newmark’s title credit means the print carries intertitles.
Scenes
- Lally’s father tells the family he is leaving her mother for Beth.
- She learns the man she has fallen for is Beth’s son.
Influenced by
- Sarita Fuller’s novel Their Own Desire (1929)
