Edith Wharton

Lily Bart es una conocida belleza que hace furor entre los caballeros de la alta sociedad, pero acaba dándose cuenta de la precariedad de su posición cuando sus encantos empiezan a provocar la envidia ajena. Indecisa entre sus sentimientos y lo que le dicta la razón, Lily siempre hace lo que debe en los peores momentos. La búsqueda de un marido rico que cumpla con las expectativas sociales, no sólo le hará perder la posibilidad de un amor verdadero con Lawrence Selden, sino que la llevará a ser acusada falsamente de mantener una relación con un hombre casado. El escándalo hará que sus amigos y la sociedad la repudien.

Nueva York, año 1870. Newland Archer, un caballero de la alta sociedad neoyorquina, está prometido con May Welland, una joven de su misma clase social. Pero sus sentimientos cambian cuando conoce a la poco convencional prima de May, la condesa Olenska. Desde el principio, defenderá la difícil posición de la condesa, cuya separación de un marido autoritario la ha convertido en una especie de proscrita dentro de su propia clase social.

Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena.

Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) es una mujer de mediana edad que quiere conquistar el corazón de un viudo. La tarea no será fácil, pues tendrá que enfrentarse a la oposición de los hijos de su amado, que consideran que su padre es demasiado mayor para empezar una nueva relación.

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.

An American couple buy an English Manor House - complete with resident sypernatural forces...

Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...

Cuando Delia Lovell (Miriam Hopkins) está punto de casarse con Jim Ralston, su antiguo novio Clement Spender (George Brent) aparece, y entonces su hermana Charlotte (Bette Davis) tratará de calmarle, al tiempo que sabremos que también ella está enamorada del visitante, quien pronto se ira a la guerra dejàndole como herencia un recuerdo eterno.

An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.

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 Wesley Ruggles.

The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.

Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.

Undine Spragg, a cunning and attractive woman living in New York during the early part of the Twentieth Century, rises to the top of the city's high society.