Melodrama reigns supreme. Tallulah Bankhead is Carlotta, a nightclub "hostess" in Panama accused of killing a man...Fredric March is a drunken lawyer who defends her. Redemption ensues for both as they make their way (on different tracks) to New York, where Bankhead becomes a successful interior designer and March continues a career as a corporate lawyer. Coincidence throws the together several times. Bankhead is terrific in a pretty understated performance and March (always capable of hamminess) is pretty low key as well, at least when he's not drunk. George Abbott directed in New York (and takes his camera to the street a few times). The supporting cast includes Anne Sutherland, Scott Kolk (as Bankhead's persistent romantic persuer) and Harry Davenport, who nearly steals his scenes as a titan of industry who knows everyone's secrets. Cinematographer George Folsey teamed up with Bankhead and Abbot for the equally entertaining film THE CHEAT the same year.
Review of My Sin
