The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
Acting
Ann Harding's blind scenes are genuinely affecting
Costume
Glamorous suffering in impeccable 1930s wardrobe
Direction
Frank Lloyd knows exactly when to push the melodrama
Director
Frank Lloyd
Ann Harding
Lady Isabella
Clive Brook
Capt. William Levison
Conrad Nagel
Robert Carlyle
Cecilia Loftus
Cornelia Carlyle
Beryl Mercer
Joyce
O. P. Heggie
Lord Mount Severn
David Torrence
Sir Richard Hare
Wally Albright
William as a Boy
Ronnie Cosby
William as a Child
Eric Mayne
Doctor
Claude King
May Beatty
Charity Bazaar Committee
Robert Bolder
Nora Cecil
Charity Bazaar Committee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the SEVENTH film adaptation of Ellen Wood's 1861 novel — audiences couldn't get enough of this tragedy.
The 'governess disguise' trope dominated 1930s women's pictures, letting fallen women observe the families they lost.
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