A Lost Lady (1934 film)

A Lost Lady is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan and Ricardo Cortez.

One day, pilot Frank Ellinger is forced to perform an emergency landing on the Forrester estate after his airplane's fuel supply is depleted.

When Dan returns, Marian tells him the news, and he is devastated and cannot sleep, although he has a major corporate case set for trial the following day.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Andre Sennwald wrote:The present variation, to one who cannot forget the haunting beauty of the book, is like a stranger in the house.

It simmers down to that, finally, with Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan and Ricardo Cortez to make a competent, unexciting and familiar movie of it. ...

[2]A review in the Los Angeles Times read: "[O]ne simply can't make up one's mind to care either about her being lost or found.

The trouble seems to be that Willa Cather's story, with its deep implications, has been given a very superficial screen interpretation, with no real characterizations or psychological understanding.