The Animal KingdomThe first film version of
Philip Barry's Broadway play The Animal Kingdom stars
Ann Harding,
Leslie Howard and
Myrna Loy.
Howard plays a wealthy publisher who decides to marry the socially prominent
Loy, leaving his mistress
Harding in the lurch. In comically convoluted fashion,
Loy behaves like a callous libertine, while
Harding is the soul of love and fidelity. The frustrated
Howard declares at the end that he is going back to his "wife"--meaning, of course, the faithful
Harding. Animal Kingdom was long withdrawn from public view due to the 1946 remake One More Tomorrow; a pristine 35-millimeter print was discovered in the Warner Bros. vaults in the mid-1980s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide