She married the nice guy. Then the jazz age called collect.
BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY NIGHT a glittering butterfly yearning for the wine of life and tossing all to the winds when the glamour of romance calls.
Acting
Barbara La Marr's smoldering duality — housewife by noon, vamp by nine.
Costume
Day dresses vs. beaded flapper finery as character development.
Director
Arthur H. Sawyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barbara La Marr was nicknamed 'The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful' and died at 29, making this one of her final performances.
Released just before the Hays Code clampdown, Sandra's moral ambiguity — cheating wife as protagonist — would vanish from screens for decades.
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