Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Acting
Bette Davis invented the 'unhinged woman' archetype here.
Writing
Pre-code dialogue that somehow got past 1935 censors.
Director
Alfred E. Green
Bette Davis
Joyce Heath
Franchot Tone
Don Bellows
Margaret Lindsay
Gail Armitage
Alison Skipworth
Mrs. Williams
John Eldredge
Gordon Heath
Dick Foran
Teddy
Walter Walker
Roger Farnsworth
Richard Carle
Pitt Hanley
George Irving
Charles Melton
Pierre Watkin
George Sheffield
Douglas Wood
Elmont
William B. Davidson
Reed Walsh
Edward Keane
Doctor
George Beranger
Bill Elliott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Davis hated this role so much she begged Warner Bros. to let her do 'Of Human Bondage' instead. They refused. She was right to be mad.
This was Davis's first Oscar win, widely considered a makeup trophy for being snubbed for 'Of Human Bondage' the year prior. Hollywood's original apology Oscar.
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