Not-bad '30s melodrama-romance, with newlyweds Gene Raymond and Fay Wray negotiating the strains of early marriage. He's a college football star turned architect, and she just passed the bar exam but apparently would rather be a Dear Little Housewife. When the economic going gets a bit rough and a case falls her way, she takes it (and it's quite a provocative case for 1933, involving a mixed-race relationship), wins it, and is soon a busy lawyer and media darling. She commits the unpardonable sin of ignoring her husband, who becomes a nightclub crooner (and Gene Raymond can't sing much) and takes up with a floozy co-worker... Neither of the leads is much of an actor here, but it holds one's interest, that is, until the end, when Fay sees The Error of Her Ways and decides professional achievement is a hollow ambition for one of her sex, what really matters is being a mother and housewife. That's where the morality was in 1933; today it's odious.
Review of Ann Carver's Profession
