No More Ladies (1935)

Although she knows he's an unreliable womanizer, a socialite (Joan Crawford) marries a playboy (Robert Montgomery). She tries to be modern and sophisticated regarding his affairs but it takes its toll on her and she plots a comeuppance. Based on the play by A.E. Thomas and directed by Edward H. Griffin (CAFE METROPOLE). This faux Noel Coward drawing room comedy is not a pre code film but it's quite frank regarding adultery. Its characters are wealthy, live in glamorous luxury apartments, wear fashionable frocks, guzzle cocktails, engage in witty banter and play revolving beds. 1930s audiences ate this stuff up and the movie was a hit. Crawford is charming and relaxed (not yet the iron maiden of her post WWII Warners period), Montgomery is properly suave and there's a pair of scene stealing supporting performances from Edna May Oliver as Crawford's aunt and Charles Ruggles as an alcoholic philanderer. With Franchot Tone, Gail Patrick, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Denny and in her film debut, Joan Fontaine.