Their Own Desire

This stagebound early talkie stars Norma Shearer as a wealthy young woman in love with wealthy young man Robert Montgomery. These wealthy young folk have wealthy older widowed parents, played by Lewis Stone (Shearer's father) and Helene Millard (Montgomery's mother). The wealthy older people also fall in love with each other, complicating the affairs of the wealthy younger people. Isn't anyone in an MGM movie ever poor besides Wallace Beery (who isn't in this one)? Norma Shearer personally selected Robert Montgomery as her leading man in Their Own Desire; the box office success of this pairing encouraged the rest of MGM's acting crop to call upon Montgomery early and often.