Riptide

Mar 29, 1934

1h 32m

★ 6.2

"When a Woman Loves!"

Overview

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Riptide Trailers

Cast

Lady Mary Rexford

Norma Shearer

Tommie L. Trent

Robert Montgomery

Lord Philip Rexford

Herbert Marshall

Aunt Hetty Riversleigh

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Erskine

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

David Fenwick

Ralph Forbes

Sylvia Wilson

Lilyan Tashman

Percy

Arthur L. Jarrett

Freddie Gray

Earl Oxford

Celeste

Helen Jerome Eddy

Bertie Davis

George K. Arthur

Bollard

Halliwell Hobbes

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