Reunion in Vienna

Reunion in Vienna
Directed by	Sidney Franklin
Written by	Robert Emmet Sherwood (play Reunion in Vienna) Ernest Vajda Claudine West
Produced by	Louis B. Mayer Irving Thalberg
Starring	John Barrymore
Cinematography	George J. Folsey
Edited by	Blanche Sewell
Music by	William Axt Paul Marquardt
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	June 16, 1933 (1933-06-16)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$478,000[1]
Box office	$643,000[1]

Reunion in Vienna is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama produced and distributed by MGM. Sidney Franklin served as director. The film stars John Barrymore in a story taken from the 1931 stage play of the same name by Robert Emmet Sherwood.^[2][3]

Plot

An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.

Cast

• John Barrymore as Archduke Rudolf von Habsburg
• Diana Wynyard as Elena Krug
• Frank Morgan as Dr. Anton King
• Henry Travers as Father Krug
• May Robson as Frau Lucher
• Eduardo Ciannelli as Pofferoff
• Una Merkel as Ilsa Hinrich
• Bodil Rosing as Kathie (Krug family's maid)
• Bela Loblov as Musician
• Morris Nussbaum as Musician
• Nella Walker as Countess Von Stainz
• Hebert Evans as Count Von Stainz

Unbilled

• Morris Ankrum as Bit Role
• Symona Boniface as Noblewoman
• John Davidson as Officer
• George Davis as Waiter
• Ferdinand Gottschalk as tour guide
• Tenen Holtz as Tourist with Drapes
• Alphonse Maartell as Nobleman
• Torben Meyer as Headwaiter Strumpf
• Edmund Mortimer as Tourist
• Paul Porcasi as Chef
• Lucien Prival as Colline, Waiter
• Edward Reinach as Aristocrat
• Tom Ricketts as Nobleman
• Rolfe Sedan as Valet
• Anders Van Haden as Aristocrat
• Ellinor Vanderveer as Noblewoman
• Dorothy Vernon as Tourist
• William von Hardenburg as Aristocrat

Box office

The film grossed a total (domestic and foreign) of $643,000: $379,000 from the US and Canada and $264,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $134,000.^[1] It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.

References

1. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Film 1931-40 by The American film Institute, c.1993]
3. Reunion in Vienna as produced on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre November 16,1931 to July 1932, 164 performances; IBDb.com

External links

• Reunion in Vienna. A Play in Three Acts at Faded Page (Canada)
• Reunion in Vienna at IMDb
• Reunion in Vienna; allmovie.com / synopsis