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Madam Satan

MADAM SATAN

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CREDITS

1930, 105 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Cecil B. DeMille; Director, Cecil B. DeMille; Screenplay, Jeanie MacPherson, Gladys Unger, Elsie Janis; Cinematography, Harold Rosson; Music Director, Herbert Stothart; Art Direction, Cedric Gibbons and Mitchell Leisen; Costumes, Adrian; Dance Direction, Leroy Prinz.

CAST

Angela Brooks, Kay Johnson; Bob Brooks, Reginald Denny; Trixie, Lillian Roth; Jimmy Wade, Roland Young; Martha, Elsa Peterson; Captain, Irwin Boyd; Romeo, Tyler Brooke; Herman, Jack King; Biff, Edward Prinz; Babo, Ynez Seabury; Bandleader, Abe Lyman.

SONGS

We're Going Somewhere; The Cat Walk; This Is Love by Herbert Stothart and Clifford Grey; All I Know Is You Are In My Arms; Low Down; Auction Number; Satan's Song; Live and Love Today by Elsie Janis and Jack King.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) has everything: she is beautiful, wealthy and married to a handsome man, Bob (Reginald Denny). But when she learns of Bob's affair with Trixie (Lillian Roth in a superb role), she realizes it is up to her to put passion back in their marriage before she loses Bob completely. Her plan to get her husband back is one of the most ingenious in film history!"
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Videotape

NOTES

"Thankfully the only musical to be attempted by the epic-orientated Cecil B. DeMille, Madam Satan was a curious entertainment that cost a great deal of money to make and laid a brick at the box office."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"A strange conglomeration of unreal incidents that are sometimes set forth with no little technical skill."
- Mordaunt Hall, New York Times

"You have to wait so long for the dirigible climax that you may be too exhausted to enjoy its lunacy."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

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