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Impatient Maiden (1932)

Drama | 72 minutes
2,83 3 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 72 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: James Whale

Stars: Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke and Una Merkel

IMDb score: 6,1 (297)

Releasedate: 1 March 1932

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Impatient Maiden plot

"The Dare Girl-the Young Doctor- and the Devil to Pay!"

Young and attractive secretary Ruth Robbins shares her apartment on Bunker Hill with her rebellious friend Betty Merrick. Newly graduated medical student Myron Brooks wants to marry Ruth, but she won't until he has a steady job. In fact, Ruth has resistance to marriage, given the bad marriage of her employer Albert Hartman. But then Ruth has to be hospitalized and it looks like the now surgeon Myron Brooks will operate on her.

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Dr. Myron Brown

Ruth Robbins

Betty Merrick

Clarence Howe

Albert Hartman

Dr. Wilcox

Nurse Lovett

Mr. Gilman

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It appears that this film is based on a novel titled The Impatient Virgin, but that last word was likely a bridge too far for the American moviegoer of 1932. In many other respects, however, this is truly a film of its time, with themes such as unemployment and the Depression. To further emphasize the more or less realistic aspect of this film, it opens with the suicide attempt of a pregnant woman who has been abandoned by her husband—something that would presumably no longer have been possible a few years later. Although the director apparently took on this job only to please his studio boss and to keep busy, The Impatient Virgin still bears his stamp, for, as is often the case with him, this film is difficult to classify as either comedy or drama, as it contains elements of both. Mae Clarke and the ever-likable Lew Ayres act remarkably naturally, and their dialogue and embraces come across as smooth and unforced, yet the operation that concludes the film is depicted seriously. The real farcical humor is provided by paramedic Andy Devine, who falls for Clarke's roommate Una Merkel because she cooks so well. John Halliday is also strong as Ruth's boss, a charming womanizer with the smoothness of Adolphe Menjou who seems to remain decent until Ruth turns out to have to look for another job and ends up in the army of the unemployed. And then there is also a mental institution simply situated in a side corridor of the hospital… As mentioned, an unusual film heading towards a happy ending that is entirely within expectations, but which still has a few surprises in store along the way.

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