An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Acting
Gladys George's drunk monologues are *chef's kiss*.
Direction
Sam Wood stages the courtroom like a funeral.
Director
Sam Wood
Gladys George
Jacqueline Fleuriot / Miss Pran / Madame X
Warren William
Bernard Fleuriot
John Beal
Raymond Fleuriot
Reginald Owen
Maurice Dourel
William Henry
Hugh Fariman Jr.
Henry Daniell
Lerocle
Phillip Reed
Jean Rochin
Lynne Carver
Helene
Emma Dunn
Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
Ruth Hussey
Annette
Luis Alberni
Scipio
George Zucco
Dr. LaFarge
Cora Witherspoon
Nora
Jonathan Hale
Hugh Fariman Sr.
Adia Kuznetzoff
Captain Dorcas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the seventh Madame X adaptation since 1910; Gladys George had already played the role on Broadway.
The 'fallen woman' trope here gets subverted—her sin is motherhood itself, which 1930s censors found deeply uncomfortable.
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