Their Own Desire

1929 film by E. Mason Hopper

Movie film Q1688579

Facts

22 properties

Instance of: film
Director: E. Mason Hopper^[1]
Genre: romance film, drama film^[4]^[5]
Publication date: 1929^[17]
Screenwriter: Frances Marion^[2]
Producer: Irving Thalberg^[11]
Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress^[20]
Duration: +65^[22]
Cast member: Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Cecil Cunningham^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
Color: black-and-white^[15]
Composer: William Axt^[3]
Country of origin: United States^[16]
Director of photography: William Daniels^[13]
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer^[18]
Film editor: Harry Reynolds^[19]
Original language of film or TV show: English^[14]
P14449: 124595^[24]
P14724: 19419862^[25]
P14821: 20488^[26]
Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer^[12]
Production designer: Cedric Gibbons^[23]
Title: Their Own Desire^[21]

🏷️ Also known as

en Their Own Desire da Fædrenes Synd es Caprichos fa به میل خودشان fr Désirs it Ritorna il sole nl De verboden vrucht uk Їх власне бажання zh 私欲 zh-hant 私慾

🔖 Identifiers · 36

AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID: 12619
AMPAS collections film ID: W071320
Academy Awards Database film ID: 995
AllMovie title ID: v113167
AlloCiné film ID: 201255
Cine.gr film ID (archived): 712655
Cinema Context ID: F003167
Decine21 film ID: 12180
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/451D-391D-066D-72CD-915A-T
ElFilm film ID: 20459
Elonet movie ID: 182746
FilmAffinity film ID: 299886

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FilmVandaag ID: film/57665
Filmweb.pl film ID: 137057
Freebase ID: /m/0183vl
IMDb ID: tt0020488
ISAN: 0000-0001-2283-0000-I-0000-0000-K
Kinobox film ID: 169097
Kinopoisk film ID: 26349
Letterboxd film ID: their-own-desire
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 33220
Movie Review Query Engine ID: their-own-desire-m100031161
MovieMeter film ID: 54341
OFDb film ID: 128168
Plex media key: 5d7769067a53e9001e6df4ac
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/their-own-desire
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 43914
Swedish Film Database ID: 31721
TCM Movie Database film ID: 2620
TMDB movie ID: 99767
TV Guide show ID (former scheme): 120264
TheTVDB movie ID: 33437
Trakt.tv ID: movies/their-own-desire-1929
Trakt.tv film ID: 71886
YouTube video ID: 5CQrWMd6fwo
ČSFD film ID: 28811

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Cast member 5

Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Belle Bennett, Cecil Cunningham

Genre 2

drama film, romance film

Color 1

black-and-white

Composer 1

William Axt

Country of origin 1

United States

Director 1

E. Mason Hopper

Director of photography 1

William Daniels

Distributed by 1

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Film editor 1

Harry Reynolds

Instance of 1

film

Nominated for 1

Academy Award for Best Actress

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Producer 1

Irving Thalberg

Production company 1

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production designer 1

Cedric Gibbons

Screenwriter 1

Frances Marion

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Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ Their Own Desire — director (P57): E. Mason Hopper. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Their Own Desire — screenwriter (P58): Frances Marion. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Their Own Desire — composer (P86): William Axt. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Their Own Desire — genre (P136): romance film. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Their Own Desire — genre (P136): drama film. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Their Own Desire — cast member (P161): Norma Shearer. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Their Own Desire — cast member (P161): Belle Bennett. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Their Own Desire — cast member (P161): Lewis Stone. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Their Own Desire — cast member (P161): Robert Montgomery. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Their Own Desire — cast member (P161): Cecil Cunningham. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22. filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Their Own Desire — producer (P162): Irving Thalberg. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Their Own Desire — production company (P272): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Their Own Desire — director of photography (P344): William H. Daniels. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Their Own Desire — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Their Own Desire — color (P462): black-and-white. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Their Own Desire — country of origin (P495): United States. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Their Own Desire — publication date (P577): 1929. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Their Own Desire — distributed by (P750): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Their Own Desire — film editor (P1040): Harry Reynolds. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Their Own Desire — nominated for (P1411): Academy Award for Best Actress. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Their Own Desire — title (P1476): Their Own Desire. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Their Own Desire — duration (P2047): 65 minutes. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Their Own Desire — production designer (P2554): Cedric Gibbons. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Their Own Desire — P14449 (P14449): 124595. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Their Own Desire — P14724 (P14724): 19419862. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Their Own Desire — P14821 (P14821): 20488. wikidata.org.

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4d ago · Rémi sim · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14724 → 19419862

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Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'commons', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'no', 'pt', 't

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Production designer → Cedric Gibbons

P14449 → 124595

Producer → Irving Thalberg

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