The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alexander Korda
Produced by	Alexander Korda (uncredited)
Written by	Henry Bataille (play) Frederick Lonsdale Lajos Bíró
Starring	Douglas Fairbanks Merle Oberon
Music by	Ernst Toch
Cinematography	Georges Perinal Robert LaPresle
Edited by	Stephen Harrison
Production company	London Film Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	30 November 1934
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume. It was Fairbanks' final film role. The film is about the life of the aging Don Juan, based on the 1920 play L'homme à la Rose by Henry Bataille. It was made by Korda's London Film Productions at Elstree Studios and distributed by United Artists under an agreement Korda had recently signed with them.

Synopsis

After many years in exile, Don Juan returns to Seville in secret. His wife has threatened to have him thrown in prison. Next morning he is surprised to find that all the town knows he is back (not surprising really as he had a big sword fight on arrival). Rodrigo, an admirer of his, follows Don Juan everywhere, wanting to be just like him, and able to give a good impression of him. Don Juan prepares to flee to France but Rodrigo is killed by a jealous husband who believes he is Don Juan and all Seville now believes him dead. He attends his own magnificent funeral, but finds many discomforts now while pretending that Don Juan is dead, before finally sorting things out.

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks as Don Juan
Merle Oberon as Antonita, a dancer of passionate temperament
Bruce Winston as the cafe manager
Gina Malo as Pepita, another dancer of equal temperament
Benita Hume as Dona Dolores, a lady of mystery
Binnie Barnes as Rosita, a maid pure and simple
Melville Cooper as Leporello
Owen Nares as Antonio Martinez, an actor, as actors go
Heather Thatcher as Anna Dora, an actress, as actresses go
Diana Napier as a lady of sentiment
Joan Gardner as Carmen, a young lady of romance
Gibson Gowland as Don Alfredo, Carmen's Poor Husband
Barry MacKay as Rodrigo, the Impostor, a Man of Romance
Claud Allister as The Duke, as Dukes Go
Athene Seyler as Theresa, the Innkeeper, a Middle Aged Lady of Young Sentiment
Hindle Edgar as A Jealous Husband
Natalie Paley as Jealous Husband's Poor Wife
Patricia Hilliard as The Girl at the Castle, a Young Girl in Love
Lawrence Grossmith as Pedo, Uncle of the Castle Girl, Who Knows Better
Clifford Heatherley as Pedro, Don Juan's Young Masseur
Morland Graham as Hector, Don Juan's Cook
Edmund Breon as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Betty Hamilton as First Tired Businessman's Wife
Rosita Garcia as Second Tired Businessman's Wife
John Brownlee as Singer
Annie Esmond as Dolores' Duenna
Hay Petrie as Golden Pheasant Manager
Margaretta Scott as Pepilla
Abraham Sofaer as Street Bookseller

External links

The Private Life of Don Juan at the Internet Movie Database
The Private Life of Don Juan is available for free download at the Internet Archive
The Private Life of Don Juan at the TCM Movie Database
The Private Life of Don Juan at AllMovie

The films of Alexander Korda

As director

1910s	Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914) The Duped Journalist (1914) Tutyu and Totyo (1914) Lea Lyon (1915) The Officer's Swordknot (1915) White Nights (1916) The Grandmother (1916) Tales of the Typewriter (1916) The Man with Two Hearts (1916) The One Million Pound Note (1916) Cyclamen (1916) Struggling Hearts (1916) The Laughing Saskia (1916) Miska the Magnate (1916) St. Peter's Umbrella (1917) The Stork Caliph (1917) Magic (1917) Harrison and Barrison (1917) Faun (1918) The Man with the Golden Touch (1918) Mary Ann (1918) Ave Caesar! (1919) White Rose (1919) Yamata (1919) Neither at Home or Abroad (1919) Number 111 (1919)

1920s	The Prince and the Pauper (1920) Masters of the Sea (1922) A Vanished World (1922) Samson and Delilah (1922) The Unknown Tomorrow (1923) Everybody's Woman (1924) Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924) Dancing Mad (1925) Madame Wants No Children (1926) A Modern Dubarry (1927) The Stolen Bride (1927) The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) Yellow Lily (1928) Night Watch (1928) Love and the Devil (1929) The Squall (1929) Her Private Life (1929)

1930s	Lilies of the Field (1930) Women Everywhere (1930) The Princess and the Plumber (1930) The Men Around Lucy (1931) Rive gauche (1931) Marius (1931) Längtan till havet (1931) The Golden Anchor (1932) Service for Ladies (1932) Wedding Rehearsal (1932) The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) La dame de chez Maxim's (1933) The Girl from Maxim's (1933) The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) Rembrandt (1936)

1940s	That Hamilton Woman (1941) Perfect Strangers (1945) An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only

1930s	Women Who Play (1932) Men of Tomorrow (1932) That Night in London (1932) Strange Evidence (1933) Counsel's Opinion (1933) Cash (1933) Catherine the Great (1934) The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) Things Are Looking Up (1935) Sanders of the River (1935) Wharves and Strays (1935) (short) The Ghost Goes West (1935) Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1936) (short) The Fox Hunt (1936) Things to Come (1936) I Stand Condemned (1936) Men Are Not Gods (1936) Forget Me Not (1936) The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) Fire Over England (1937) I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished) Dark Journey (1937) Elephant Boy (1937) Farewell Again (1937) Storm in a Teacup (1937) Action for Slander (1937) Knight Without Armour (1937) The Squeaker (1937) Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) Paradise for Two (1937) The Divorce of Lady X (1938) The Drum (1938) South Riding (1938) The Challenge (1938) Prison Without Bars (1938) Q Planes (1939) The Four Feathers (1939) The Rebel Son (1939) The Spy in Black (1939) The Lion Has Wings (1939) Over the Moon (1939)

1940s	21 Days (1940) Conquest of the Air (1940) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Old Bill and Son (1941) Lydia (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Jungle Book (1942) The Biter Bit (1943) (short) The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) A Man about the House (1947) Mine Own Executioner (1947) Night Beat (1948) Anna Karenina (1948) The Winslow Boy (1948) The Fallen Idol (1948) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) That Dangerous Age (1949) The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949) Saints and Sinners (1949) The Third Man (1949)

1950s	The Cure for Love (1950) The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) The Angel with the Trumpet (1950) The Bridge of Time (1950) (short documentary) My Daughter Joy (1950) State Secret (1950) The Wooden Horse (1950) Seven Days to Noon (1950) Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) The Wonder Kid (1951) Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) Outcast of the Islands (1952) Home at Seven (1952) Who Goes There! (1952) Cry. the Beloved Country (1952) Edinburgh (1952) (short documentary) Road to Canterbury (1952) (short documentary) The Sound Barrier (1952) The Holly and the Ivy (1952) The Ringer (1953) Folly to Be Wise (1953) Twice Upon a Time (1953) The Captain's Paradise (1953) The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) The Man Between (1953) The Heart of the Matter (1954) Hobson's Choice (1954) The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) The Teckman Mystery (1954) The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) Three Cases of Murder (1955) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Summertime (1955) Storm Over the Nile (1955) Richard III (1955) Smiley (1956)

Don Juan

Films	Don Juan Tenorio (1898) Don Juan (1913) The Lucky Horseshoe (1925) Don Juan (1926) The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) Adventures of Don Juan (1948) Le avventure di Mandrin (1952) Crossed Swords (1954) The Devil's Eye (1960) Don Juan in Sicily (1967) Don Juan (1969) Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973) Don Giovanni (1979) Little Tragedies (1979) Don Juan in Hell (1995) Don Juan DeMarco (1995) "El Toro Relajo" "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" Don Juan (1998) Broken Flowers (2005) Don Jon (2013)

Plays	The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630) Dom Juan (1665) The Stone Guest (1830) Don Juan Tenorio (1844) Don Juan (1862) Man and Superman (1905) Don Juan (1959) Don Juan in Soho (2006) A Free Man of Color (2010)

Operas	L'empio punito (1669) La pravità castigata (1730) Don Giovanni (1787) "Là ci darem la mano " "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" Discography Don Giovanni Tenorio (1787) Réminiscences de Don Juan (1841) The Stone Guest (1872) Margarita la tornera (1909) Flammen (1932)

Other music	Don Juan (ballet, 1761) Don Juan (tone poem, 1888) Don Juan Triumphant (fictional, 1910) John Gavanti (album, 1980) Don Giovanni (album, 1986) Don Juan (musical, 2003) "Don Juan" (song, 2012)

Poems	Don Juan (1821) El estudiante de Salamanca (1840)

Novels	Blue of Noon (1957) Mary and the Giant (1987)

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