Possessed (1931) (1931)

Editor's Note Joan Crawford stars in this powerful romance as Marian, a beautiful factory worker who dreams of leaving poverty and the confines of small-town life behind her. While daydreaming by the railroad tracks, she meets a wealthy New Yorker who convinces her to escape to the big city. Determined to make it, Marian leaves behind her childhood boyfriend, Al Manning (Wallace Ford), and her simple life for dreams of a glamorous life in elegant Manhattan. When she arrives, she meets Mark Whitney (Clark Gable), a powerful and charming young lawyer who instantly sweeps her off her feet. What initially begins as a relationship of convenience becomes true love as Mark and Marian spend years together and Marian becomes the glamorous woman of class and distinction that she always dreamed of. There is only one problem: Mark, an idealistic divorcé, refuses to marry Marian because he is afraid of suffering through another divorce. But Marian fears he is ashamed of her lowly background, and she is desperate to become more than his mistress. When Al Manning reappears, newly wealthy, he is bound and determined to win back his childhood sweetheart, tearing Marian and Mark apart forever. Based on the play THE MIRAGE by Edgar Selwyn, POSSESSED is ably directed by the always reliable Clarence Brown.

	Wallace Ford
	John Miljan
	Frank Conroy
	Joan Crawford
	Clara Blandick
	Skeets Gallagher
	Marjorie White
	Clark Gable
	William LeVanway - Editor
	Oliver T. Marsh - Director of Photography
	Lenore Coffee - Screenwriter
	Clarence Brown - Producer
	Cedric Gibbons - Production Designer
	Adrian - Costume Designer
	Clarence Brown - Director

Joan Crawford and Clark Gable are perfectly suited for one another in this passionate love story set amid the glittering high society of 1930s New York.