The Wiser Sex [SEP] director
The Wiser Sex
The Wiser Sex is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and Victor Viertel and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Lilyan Tashman, William "Stage" Boyd and Ross Alexander. Made by Paramount Pictures,
its working title was "The Weaker Sex". Clyde Fitch's play was first filmed by Famous Players' in 1916 as "The Woman in the Case", directed by Hugh Ford and starring Pauline Frederick. Famous Players-Lasky's 1922 production, "
her health began to fail but she appeared in "The Wiser Sex", "Those We Love", the film on the Russian Revolution, "Scarlet Dawn", "Mama Loves Papa" with Charlie Ruggles (1933), and the musical "Too Much Harmony" (1933). In early 1934, she appeared in "Riptide" with Norma Shearer. Her last film, "Frankie and Johnny", was released posthumously in 1936. Director George Cukor described Tashman as "a very diverting creature [...