Cocktail Hour (1933) DVD-R

Starring Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer, Muriel Kirkland,
Jessie Ralph
Directed by Victor Schertzinger

Print: black/white
Runtime: 73 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an
illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman
is destined for matrimony and motherhood, and decides she has as much
right as a man to play around sans benefit of marriage. So, leaving behind
steady-but-dull Randolph Morgan (who seems to be the primary buyer of
her 'art' and income,) she heads for Paris. The New York harbor is barely
out of sight before she falls into the arms of a slick from England,William
Lawton, who turns out to be something of a rotter who already has a wife,
and Cynthia's liberal creed only stretches so far. In Paris, she hooks up
with a Prince, who is a prince of a fellow and never strays far from his
mother's side, but Lawton shows up again and makes some unwanted
advances and the Prince comes to her aid, and Lawton ends up
apparently somewhat dead when the Prince tosses him out a window, but
Cynthia takes the rap as she feels it wouldn't be nice to separate a boy
from his mother. Then, Randolph shows up. And Lawton shows up...again