Top billed cast

1. 

   Sylvia Sidney

   Cho-cho San

2. 

   Cary Grant

   Lieutenant Pinkerton

3. 

   Charles Ruggles

   Lieutenant Barton

4. 

   Irving Pichel

   Yamadori

5. 

   Helen Jerome Eddy

   Cho-cho San's Mother

6. 

   Edmund Breese

   Cho-cho San's Grandfather

7. 

   Louise Carter

   Suzuki

8. 

   Sándor Kállay

   Goro

9. 

   Judith Vosselli

   Madame Goro

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-07-14

Don't go looking for much Puccini in this adaptation of the rather sad tale of "Madame Butterfly". Sylvia Sidney picks up the fan as the young geisha girl who encounters American sailor "Pinkerton" (Cary Grant) after the war. Rather cynically, his pal "Barton" (Charles Ruggles) informs him that he can pretty much have his way with the girl so long as he "marries" her beforehand and then she automatically becomes divorced afterwards when he gets on with his life Stateside. "Pinkerton" isn't quite so nasty, but when assured that "Cho-Cho San" will also just get on with things too, then a night o...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• suicide
• geisha
• based on play or musical
• promise
• interracial romance
• cultural difference
• black and white
• pre-code
• yellowface