Christopher Strong

Christopher Strong aka The Great Desire and The White Moth is a 1933 American PreCode film, produced by RKO and directed by Dorothy Arzner. The film starred Colin Clive and Katharine Hepburn in her second screen role. The film is a tale of illicit love among the English aristocracy. The screenplay by Zo Akins was adapted from the 1932 novel by Gilbert Frankau.

Christopher Strong is not the only indiscreet person in the family. Monica had previously had an affair with the married Harry Rawlinson Ralph Forbes. While waiting for him to divorce his wife and marry her, she runs off for a brief affair with an Italian Romeo, Carlo Jack La Rue.Six months after Monica and Harry marry, they announce her pregnancy to her elated grandparentstobe. Lady Cynthia simultaneously learns that she is pregnant, and saves Sir Christophers moral position and political career by committing suicide by pulling off her oxygen mask while setting an altitude record in her aircraft. ........

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