Idiot’s Delight

film by Brown [1939]

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In Clarence Brown: The 1930s
Idiot’s Delight (1939) was the much-anticipated—but much-censored—adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning antiwar play. Gable and Shearer, who led the film cast, were not quite as good as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who had starred in the original Broadway production, though Gable was…
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