Synopsis:
Once a Lady is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello and Jill Esmond. The film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, is a remake of the Pola Negri silent film Three Sinners (1928). The film was the final attempt by British matinée idol Novello to establish himself in Hollywood. Anna Keremazoff, a Russian living in Paris, leaves her beloved city and her bohemian lifestyle to marry Briton Jimmy Fenwick after she becomes pregnant by him. When the couple arrives at the Fenwick estate in Kent, Anna candidly tells Jimmy’s snobbish family she is pregnant. Shocked by Anna’s lack of decorum, Jimmy’s priggish aunt and mother begin a slow campaign against her free spirit. Six years later, Jimmy returns from the war as a candidate for Parliament and finds Anna increasingly discontented, but is unsympathetic to her complaints. Anna’s only companion has been her daughter Faith, whom the Fenwicks have tried to control. When Bennett Cloud, an old lover of Anna from Paris, visits for Jimmy’s campaign speech and finds Anna denuded of her spirited personality, he invites her for an afternoon of dark cafes and vodka. She returns home late and overhears the Fenwicks’ plan to send her away until the election is over. When Anna exposes the scheme and refuses to be manipulated, Jimmy promises to spend a few days with her in Paris, then abandons her on the train, calling her a hindrance to his career.

Once a Lady (1931).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 19mn
Size: 	1.28 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	716x478 ~> 716x537
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 081 Kbps
BPP: 	0.254
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/C48A219290CB11D/Once_a_Lady_(1931).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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