{"id":13317,"date":"2010-12-29T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=13317"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:32:44","slug":"waterloo-bridge-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=13317","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Bridge (1931)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Waterloo<\/a><\/p>\n

When 1910s London chorus girl Myra Deauville (Mae Clarke<\/a>) finds herself out of work, she assumes she\u2019ll be able to find herself a new show soon enough.\u00a0 Two years later and still jobless, she has no choice but to become a hooker to support herself.\u00a0 She and her friend Kitty (Doris Lloyd<\/a>) walk the streets together, but one night during an air raid, she stops to help an older woman trying to carry a lot of potatoes.\u00a0 Roy (Douglass Montgomery<\/a>), a\u00a0 U.S. soldier on leave, stops to help them and when he realizes Myra is a fellow American, the two of them hit it off right away.\u00a0 Once potato lady was taken care of, he goes back to Myra\u2019s apartment with her to wait out the air raid.\u00a0 Roy falls madly in love with Myra, and even though Myra feels the same way, she doesn\u2019t want to get too close to him.\u00a0 She only tells him that she\u2019s an unemployed chorus girl, she doesn\u2019t want him to know she\u2019s a prostitute.<\/p>\n

Soon enough, Roy wants to bring Myra out to the country to meet his family.\u00a0 Of course, she initially refuses, but Roy ends up tricking her into meeting them.\u00a0 His sister Janet is played by a very young Bette Davis<\/a>.\u00a0 His family seems to like her and Roy proposes, but Myra can\u2019t stand having this secret on her conscience so she tells his mother the truth.\u00a0 Although his mother is very understanding, she asks her not to marry Roy.\u00a0 The next day, she sneaks back to London without saying goodbye to Roy.\u00a0 Roy comes back to London to find out what happened and begs her to marry him.\u00a0 He has to go back to the war very soon, so he\u2019s trying to make it happen fast.\u00a0 She agrees, but while he\u2019s out of the room, she sneaks out the window.\u00a0 After she leaves, Roy runs into Myra\u2019s landlord looking to collect the rent.\u00a0 Myra\u2019s landlord lets the cat out of the bag about what Myra\u2019s real job is, but Roy still loves her.\u00a0 He heads out to Waterloo Bridge to look for her and finds her mere minutes before he has to leave for the war again.\u00a0 He begs her to agree to marry him when he comes back or he\u2019ll refuse to leave.\u00a0 Myra agrees, but alas, their marriage was never meant to be.<\/p>\n

Vivien Leigh is best remembered for the Production Code-era version starring Vivien Leigh<\/a> and Robert Taylor<\/a>.\u00a0 But the 1940 remake of Waterloo Bridge<\/a> only vaguely resembles its pre-code counterpart.\u00a0 The Vivien Leigh version starts out like the Mae Clarke version, meeting Roy by Waterloo Bridge during an air raid, but then it goes on quite a detour before it resembles the 1931 film again.\u00a0 First of all, the fact that Myra was a prostitute had to be really downplayed in the Vivien Leigh version.\u00a0 The whole part about Roy being mistakenly reported as dead never happened in the Mae Clarke version.\u00a0 Mae Clarke\u2019s Myra is never thrown out of a show because of Roy like Vivien Leigh\u2019s Myra was.\u00a0 In the Vivien Leigh version, Myra is much more willing to marry Roy while Mae Clarke always tried to avoid it as much as possible.<\/p>\n

When I watch Waterloo Bridge, all I can think is how underrated an actress Mae Clarke is.\u00a0 She\u2019s best remembered for having a grapefruit shoved in her face by James Cagney <\/a>in The Public Enemy<\/a>, but you can see in Waterloo Bridge that there was a lot more to her than that.\u00a0 She had a solid career in the 1930s, but it slowed down by the ’40s, and by the ’50s and ’60s, she was doing a lot of TV stuff and uncredited parts in major movies like Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/a>, Pat and Mike<\/a>, The Catered Affair, and Thoroughly Modern Millie<\/a>.\u00a0 Going by her performance here, I really think she really should have been a much bigger star and it\u2019s beyond me why she wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s her performance that puts this movie on equal footing with Vivien Leigh\u2019s Waterloo Bridge.<\/p>\n

Angela is a classic film enthusiast from Detroit with a degree in Television Production.\u00a0 She runs the blog The Hollywood Revue<\/strong><\/a> and is the co-author of Cooking With the Classics: Recipes Inspired by Classic Films.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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