Perhaps director Frank Borzage’s best-known film before he joined Fox, Secrets extols the enduring virtues of love over time. An adaptation of Rudolph Besier and May Eddington’s play, it unfolds as an extended flashback when an elderly wife, tending to her sick husband, falls asleep and dreams of the many “secrets” they have shared in their long, tumultuous life together.
Distribution: Associated First National Pictures. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the play Secrets, a Play in a Prologue, Three Acts and an Epilogue by Rudolf Besier and May Edginton. Screenwriter: Frances Marion. Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio. With: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Patterson Dial, Emily Fitzroy, Claire McDowell. 35mm, b/w, silent with Czech intertitles and live English translation, 90 min.
