Peg o' My Heart (1933 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Peg o' My Heart

| image = Peg o' My Heart (1933) trailer.jpg

| caption =

| director = Robert Z. Leonard (uncredited)

| producer = Robert Z. Leonard
John W. Considine Jr.

| based_on = {{based on|Peg O' My Heart
1912 play|J. Hartley Manners}}

| screenplay = Frank R. Adams
Frances Marion (adaptation)

| starring = Marion Davies
Onslow Stevens
J. Farrell MacDonald

| cinematography = George Barnes

| editing = Margaret Booth

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1933|5|26}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Peg o' My Heart is a 1933 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners.{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2c76cb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070734/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2c76cb|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2018|title=Peg o' My Heart (1933)}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=peg+o%27+my+heart+1933+literary+sources+in+film&pg=PA305|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=8 September 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110951943|via=Google Books}} It starred Marion Davies as a poor Irish girl, Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell, who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/peg-o-my-heart-v105817|title=Peg O' My Heart (1933) - Robert Z. Leonard - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}

Plot

Sir Gerald Markham Onslow Stevens arrives in Ireland to inform Peg's (Marion Davies) father that she has inherited her grandfather's estates in England. The conditions are that Peg must spend three years in England learning to be a lady and remain separated from her father. And the separation must be complete and permanent. At first her father refuses the approximately £2M estate, but then he realizes his daughter has been raised without a mother and lacks the refinements of a lady.

She is sent to London to live with her aunt, the penniless Mrs. Chichester, her daughter, Ethel, and spoiled, over-indulged son, Alaric. The Chichesters put up with the arrangement because they are paid 5000 pounds a year for hosting Peg.

Peg falls in love with Sir Gerald. Unfortunately he is in love with Ethel and proposes marriage, but Ethel is secretly having an affair with Christopher, who is married.

At Sir Gerald and Ethel's engagement party, Peg's father arrives and tells Sir Gerald he is leaving for America. Sir Gerald implies to Peg that her father is dead by saying her father has "gone" out to sea.

Later Peg catches Ethel trying to run away with Christopher. Peg runs off in Christopher's limo to confront him and Ethel arrives. Shortly thereafter so does his wife and detectives. The wife demands to see the woman who just ran in the room, but Peg comes out. Ethel is shocked when Christopher doesn't want his wife to divorce him.

When the scandal of Peg's part in Christopher's divorce breaks, she decides to leave London and return to Ireland. Sir Gerald confesses that her father is alive and learns about the money for her education.

Able to stop her father from sailing to America, they are celebrating in Ireland when Sir Gerald arrives to tell Peg he loves her.