A lady lawyer in the late 1930's deals with the conflicts her career brings to her marriage to a factory worker who becomes a fairly popular nightclub singer. Her success takes them from a small apartment to a mansion, and without him bringing in the book of the dough, their conflicts begin to grow. Gloria Stuart, much later on regaining fame as the old Rose in the 1997 Best Picture Winner "Titanic", plays the strong-willed lady lawyer who finds out that happiness in career doesn't necessarily mix with happiness in life. The husband is played by Lanny Ross who had a singing career in a few movies and on radio in the 1930's and 40's. He takes up with alcoholic nightclub singer Joan Marsh who drinks herself to death, and circumstantial evidence has him put on trial for murder. What happens next becomes pretty predictable, with Stuart stepping up to defend him, blaming herself in a confession that will cause some viewers to roll their eyes.
This old-fashioned marital drama has a few songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, one of which got an Oscar nomination but is forgotten today. there are also a few specialty scenes of a bizarre magic act that stops the drama cold. Stuart is fine but the script really doesn't give much opportunity to develop her or Ross's characters beyond basic details. The affair with Marsh is thrown in so fast and her alcoholism dealt with so abruptly that it really doesn't take time to create a believable conflict. While the photography and art direction are pretty good, it's not enough to make this anything more then a cliched, formula women's picture, and second-rate at that.
This old-fashioned marital drama has a few songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, one of which got an Oscar nomination but is forgotten today. there are also a few specialty scenes of a bizarre magic act that stops the drama cold. Stuart is fine but the script really doesn't give much opportunity to develop her or Ross's characters beyond basic details. The affair with Marsh is thrown in so fast and her alcoholism dealt with so abruptly that it really doesn't take time to create a believable conflict. While the photography and art direction are pretty good, it's not enough to make this anything more then a cliched, formula women's picture, and second-rate at that.