When A Man Loves (1927) - (Movie Clip) Temptations Of The Flesh
Introduction of leading man John Barrymore, meeting Manon (Dolores Costello), en route to life in a convent, in the hit Warner Brothers treatment of Manon Lescaut, the 1731 novel by the Abbe Prevost, restored by UCLA and the George Eastman House, When A Man Loves, 1927.
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Having met that day and escaped, her from being sold into de facto prostitution and him from enrollment in seminary, Manon (Dolores Costello) and Fabien (John Barrymore) arrive in Paris ca. 1730, learning about one another, in Warner Brothers When A Man Loves, 1927.
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Impoverished after escaping to 1730s Paris, unmarried Fabien (John Barrymore) and Manon (Dolores Costello) happily pretend they can raise the rent, when her evil brother (Warner Oland) appears, looking to deliver her to a lecherous nobleman, in When A Man Loves, 1927.
When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Too Frail To Please
Manon (Dolores Costello), having escaped from her brother (Warner Oland), whos trying to sell her into prostitution, searches for her lover Fabien (John Barrymore), whos been tricked into believing she left him, winding up in the same Paris tavern, in Warner Brothers When A Man Loves, 1927.