Acting
Helen Twelvetrees carries wounded dignity through every humiliation.
Costume
Allie's transformation wardrobe tells her entire arc silently.
Writing
Dialogue so pointed the Hays Code arrived basically because of this.
Director
William A. Seiter
Helen Twelvetrees
Allie Smith Riggs
Eric Linden
Charlie Riggs
Arline Judge
Maisie
Roscoe Ates
Pool Room Bartender Mike
Polly Walters
Daisy
Blanche Friderici
Librarian Margaret Gordon
Cliff Edwards
Pete
Edwin Maxwell
The Doctor
Walter Percival
Dance Palace Master of Ceremonies
Phyllis Crane
The Taxi Dancer
Edmund Breese
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Harry Stubbs
Mr. Perlman the Promoter
Nora Cecil
Landlady (uncredited)
Toshia Mori
Chop Suey Restaurant Hostess (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months before strict enforcement of the Production Code, this is essentially celluloid evidence of what Hollywood got away with.
Helen Twelvetrees was so typecast as suffering wives that she literally titled her autobiography 'Twelvetrees'.
US
