Based on Somerset Maugham's autobiographical novel, the film tells the story of a crippled, sensitive doctor, played by Leslie Howard, who is obsessed with a Cockney waitress-prostitute played by Bette Davis. This film is considered by many to be a model of so-called classic American cinema.
The story of a crippled medical student and his romance with a dying waitress.
A vicious, vulgar Cockney waitress captivates a weak, sensitive English doctor.
Haunting adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel stars Leslie Howard as a failed Parisian artist who decides to enroll in medical school. After falling for lower-class waitress Bette Davis, his life is turned upside down as he becomes increasingly devoted to her--despite her mean-spirited and cheating ways.
Somerset Maugham's Of human bondage
Of human bondage [videorecording]
Set at the turn of the century, the story shows the tragic passion of a crippled young doctor for a lowbrow, cockney waitress. Rejecting him, she still uses him when she is in need. A tale of human love and folly that remains a powerful, gripping, emotional experience.
Sensitive, club-footed Philip [Leslie Howard] goes to England to study medicine where he meets Mildred Rogers [Bette Davis], a comely but illiterate waitress. They continue an off and on romance until tragedy befalls Mildred.
Fiction.Drame psychologique. À Londres, un étudiant en médecine, Philip Carey, tombe sous l'emprise d'une femme ambitieuse et sans scrupules.Avec Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Réginald Sheffield, Reginald Owen, Desmond Roberts.
Of human bondage (Motion picture : 1934)
Portrays a young British medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress, leading to a mutually destructive affair.
Nonfiction films
Drama
The story of a polished and respected doctor who is obsessed by a vulgar waitress and throws his life away for her.
A cockney waitress misleads and almost destroys a young crippled doctor into believing that she really does care about him.
Abandoning his artistic ambitions, a sensitive and club-footed man enrolls in medical school in Edwardian London, and becomes infatuated with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress, an affair which leads them both into mutual destruction. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Further misfortunes ensue.
The poignant story of a disabled medical student's love for a crude and vulgar waitress which results in a mutually destructive relationship.
Young doctor, crippled by a club foot, falls in love with promiscuous cockney waitress. The story turns to tragic passion when she rejects him but continues to use his love and carring for his own selfish ends.
The story of Dr. Howard's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar waitress that almost causes his downfall.
A well-to-do Englishman is brought down by his agonized and destructive attachment to a vulgar London waitress.
The story of a crippled medical student and his romance with a vulgar waitress.
Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive Philip Carey enrols in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant.
Betty Davis
Feature films
The poignant story of a cripped medical student's feverish love for a sluttish waitress.
Eternally yours: It's a magic show; it's a love triangle; it's escapism at its best. Complete with world cruises, chincilla coats, champagne hangovers, elaborate lodges, and Houdini-like stunts, this melodrama/comedy is refreshing from beginning to end.
Of human bondage [1934]
An English medical student in Edwardian London is brought down by his infatuation with a shallow Cockney waitress.
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Video recordings
Of human bondage is the story of a well-to-do Englishman brought down by his infatuation with a sluttish waitress.
A well-to-do Englishman is brought down by his destructive attachment to a conniving young waitress.
Bette Davis rose from the ranks of Warner Bros. contract players to become a screen superstar when she was loaned out to RKO to appear in John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Leslie Howard (Gone with the wind) stars as Philip, a British medical student who becomes infatuated with a most unlikely woman: a vulgar waitress named Mildred (Davis). Undeterred by Mildred's obvious contempt of him (and her disgust for his disabled foot), Philip lavishes his affection upon the tawdry woman, and allows his personal and professional life to disintegrate as a consequence of her sadistic whims. Though considered an unlikely choice to play a cockney working girl, Davis fearlessly embraced Mildred's dark side, and delivered an erotic yet malevolent performance that launched her to the forefront of Hollywood's leading ladies.
Film adaptations
The story of a crippled medical student and his romance with a heartless waitress.
Of Human Bondage
The story of the ill-fated romance between a well-to-do club-footed medical student and a vulgar waitress.
This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress. The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair.
Videocassette release of the 1934 motion picture.
Comedy films
A club-footed orphan struggles for independence, his intellectual development and his attempt to become an artist.
An English gentleman is brought down by the low-class waitress he loves and tries to transform.
A physically handicapped medical student in Edwardian England is brought down by his infatuation with a shallow Cockney waitress.
A young man, suffering the affliction of a clubfoot falls hopelessly in love with a manipulative, ungrateful woman. His obsession with her causes him to become oblivious to other facets of his life, including the fact that two other women are very much in love with him.
Melodrama revolving around Philip Carey, a young medical student in London. Carey's infatuation with a Cockney waitress brings him only sorrow and dispair.
The poignant story of a young handicapped medical student who falls in love with a crude Cockney waitress in a mutually destructive relationship.
Melodrama revolving around Philip Carey, a young medical student in Edwardian London. Carey's infatuation with a Cockney waitress only brings him sorrow and despair.
"After he is told by a Parisian artist that he possesses little artistic talent, would-be painter Philip Carey returns to London and enters medical school. Painfully self-conscious about his clubfoot, Philip flirts awkwardly with Mildred Rogers, a Cockney tearoom waitress whom his fellow student, Cyril Dunsford, has 'discovered.' Although Mildred treats him rudely, Philip returns to the tearoom and coaxes her to accept a dinner date. During the dinner, Mildred continues her cold, bored behavior and refuses Philip a goodnight kiss. She then breaks a theater date with him in order to see Emile Miller, a loud but well-to-do womanizer. Because of his growing obsession with the waitress, Philip fails his mid-term exams, but determines to propose marriage to her. As Philip presents her with a ring, Mildred tells him that she is engaged to another man, whom Philip later discovers is Miller. To help him forget Mildred, Philip is introduced to Norah, a romance writer, who showers him with love. In spite of his own desires to return Norah's love, Philip ends their relationship when a pregnant Mildred, who has been deserted by the already married Miller, shows up on his doorstep. After her baby is born, Mildred betrays Philip with Harry Griffiths, another student, but eventually is abandoned by him. Philip, meanwhile, meets pretty Sally Athelny, the daughter of a former patient, who encourages him to visit their large family. Months later, a penniless Mildred returns to Philip with her baby and moves in with him. Distressed by Philip's sudden lack of affection, Mildred explodes with fury one night and accuses him of being a laughable, 'gimpy-legged monster.' She then destroys all of his paintings and burns a stack of bonds, which Philip's uncle had sent him for tuition. Broke, Philip is forced to quit school, but before he leaves, Dr. Jacobs operates on him and rids him of his clubfoot. Eventually the unemployed Philip is taken in by the Athelnys and given a job in a store. Soon after, Philip receives a beseeching letter from Mildred, who has lost her baby and contracted tuberculosis. Determined to resist Mildred, Philip gives her a little money and departs. Then, with an inheritance from his uncle, he finishes medical school and contracts to be the physician on a cruise ship. Before he is to sail, however, Philip learns of Mildred's death and, at last liberated, decides to stay in London and marry the devoted Sally"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940.
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Fiction
Love stories
The poignant story of a crippled medical student's love for a crude and vulgar waitress which results in a mutually destructive relationship.
The poignant story of a cripped medical student's love for a crude and vulgar waitress which results in a mutually destructive relationship.
Of human bondage
Philip Carey, a young medical student in Edwardian London, becomes infatuated with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress, an affair which leads them both into mutual destruction.
Biographical films
Fiction. Drame psychologique. À Londres, un étudiant en médecine, Philip Carey, tombe sous l'emprise d'une femme ambitieuse et sans scrupules. Avec Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Alan Hale.
Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers
Of human bondage (Motion picture)
A story about a crippled medical student and his agonized and destructive attachment to a vulgar London waitress.
Fiction films
A story about a club footed medical student and his agonized and destructive attachment to a London waitress.
A physically handicapped English medical student in Edwardian England is brought down by his infatuation with a shallow Cockney waitress.
A gentleman doctor is inexplicably infatuated with a working class waitress.
Of human bondage Eternally yours
Of human bondage: A sensitive, club-footed medical student's obsession with an opportunistic Cockney waitress almost ruins his life.
Of human bondage deals with a respected English doctor falling in love with a Cockney waitress.
Of Human Bondage. [VHS videorecording]
A young man struggling for self-realization becomes caught up in a destructive love affair that forever alters his life.
Based on Somerset Maugham's novel, this is the story of Doctor Howard's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar waitress that almost causes his downfall.
The story of a sensitive, crippled young doctor's love for a vulgar and grasping waitress.
A physically handicapped English medical student in Edwardian London is brought down by his infatuation with a shallow Cockney waitress.
A young gentleman doctor falls inexplicably, yet unescapably, in love with a vulgar cockney waitress, who uses him at will. Again and again he rescues her from a degenerate existence, only to see her fall even lower.
A star is born: Alcoholic star Norman Maine marries would-be actress Esther Blodgett, whose career blossoms while Maine's dwindles to nothing.
Videodiscs
The story of an inhibited and club-footed medical student's unrequited love for a strumpet who treats him shabbily.
Mildred is a vicious, vulgar Cockney waitress who captivates a weak, sensitive doctor.
Of human bondage: The poignant story of a crippled medical student's love for a crude and vulgar waitress which results in a mutually destructive relationship.
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Presents Somerset Maugham's story of a clubfoot young doctor and a promiscuous Cockney waitress he becomes obsessed with and who almost destroys him.
Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress. The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair.