A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.
Acting
Ruth Chatterton's trembling restraint before she finally cracks.
Production
Depression-era interiors that suffocate as much as the marriage.
Director
Richard Wallace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood slipped this past censors by keeping adultery emotional, not physical — the suggestion was the scandal.
Ruth Chatterton was Hollywood's highest-paid actress when she made this; she quit acting entirely by 1938.
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