Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
Acting
Stanwyck's smirk could end marriages. She uses it often.
Writing
Dialogue so frank about sex, the Hays Code had a stroke.
Costume
Anne's loungewear revolution: sin looks EXPENSIVE.
Director
Archie Mayo
Barbara Stanwyck
Anne Vincent
James Rennie
Richard 'Dick' Ives II
Ricardo Cortez
Price Baines
Natalie Moorhead
Marjorie 'Margie' True
Charles Butterworth
George 'Georgie' Evans
Joan Blondell
Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Claude Gillingwater
Richard Ives Sr.
Lucille Ward
Susan - Anne's Maid (uncredited)
Barbara Weeks
Girl at the Bridal Shower #1 (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was made literally MONTHS before the Hays Code crackdown—filmmakers were shoving every scandalous topic in while they still could.
Stanwyck's character was based on real 'flapper' essays from Cosmopolitan—yes, THAT Cosmo, already causing trouble in 1931.
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