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Sylvia Sidney
Cho-Cho San
Cary Grant
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
Charles Ruggles
Lieutenant Barton
Irving Pichel
Yamadori
Helen Jerome Eddy
Cho-Cho's Mother
Edmund Breese
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
Louise Carter
Suzuki
Judith Vosselli
Madame Goro
Sándor Kállay
Goro
Sheila Terry
Adelaide Pinkerton
Dorothy Libaire
Peach Blossom
Berton Churchill
Mr. Sharpless
Philip Horomato
Trouble
Charita
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jul 14 2024
Don't go looking for much Puccini in this adaptation of the rather sad tale of "Madame Butterfly". Sylvia Sidney picks up the fan as the young geisha girl who encounters American sailor "Pinkerton" (Cary Grant) after the war. Rather cynically, his pal "Barton" (Charles Ruggles) informs him that he can pretty much have his way with the girl so long as he "marries" her beforehand and then she automatically becomes divorced afterwards when he gets on with his life Stateside. "Pinkerton" isn't quite so nasty, but when assured that "Cho-Cho San" will also just get on with things too, then a night of...
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Keywords
- suicide
- geisha
- based on play or musical
- promise
- interracial romance
- cultural difference
- black and white
- pre-code