The Marriage Playground

The Marriage Playground

Palm Beach love. The wedding march. The divorce judge's gavel. Who pays the piper?

NR 1929 · 70 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy, Romance, Drama

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.

Directed by Lothar Mendes · Written by J. Walter Ruben

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