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Description
Saturday, May 2 @ 5:00 PM
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (Film Studies Center Screening Room)
915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
☆ THE WISER SEX ☆
Directed by Berthold Viertel • 1932
Margaret (Claudette Colbert) doesn’t want to marry a man who’d prioritize his job over their relationship — not even if he’s a district attorney (Melvyn Douglas) on the trail of the ruthless gangster Harry Evans (William Boyd). But when Margaret finds that the hapless D.A. has been framed by Evans for the murder of his own cousin (Franchot Tone), she’s forced to go undercover as a blonde good-time gal and expose the truth. If only a jury of the ‘wiser sex’ could be impaneled, justice might just prevail. One of the last films produced by Paramount at their Astoria studio, The Wiser Sex epitomizes a bold, brassy style of East Coast filmmaking. Despite working from a play from 1905 that had been filmed twice already, director Berthold Viertel valiantly tried to spin his version as a ripped-from-the-headlines gloss on the then-current Seabury investigations of New York political corruption. (KW)
76 min • Paramount Pictures • 35mm from Universal
Date & Time
Sat, May 2, 2026 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Venue Details
Logan Center For the Arts Screening Room 201
915 East 60th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637
