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Writer:
Edmund Goulding (written by)
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Release Date:
18 September 1937 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Love Broke Her Heart !
Plot:
Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers... more | add synopsis
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One of the sappiest plots in film history more (10 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bette Davis ... Mary Donnell, aka Mrs. Al Haines

Henry Fonda ... Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Anita Louise ... Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
Ian Hunter ... Lloyd Rogers
Donald Crisp ... Jack V. Merrick Sr.
Hugh O'Connell ... Reporter Virgil Whitaker
Katharine Alexander ... Mrs. Lloyd Rogers (as Katherine Alexander)
Mary Philips ... Amy (as Mary Phillips)
Minor Watson ... Clark Tilden
Sidney Toler ... Detective Lieutenant Neely
Charles Trowbridge ... Dr. 'Doc' James
Norman Willis ... Fred
Herbert Rawlinson ... Dr. Hartman
Tim Henning ... Kenyon
Dwane Day ... Jackie Merrick
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Additional Details

Runtime:
93 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Vitaphone)
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Mary Donnell: I'm warning you, lay off - or you'll wake up one morning and find your hat floating in the lake, and who do you think will be under the hat? more
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Featured in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV) more
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8 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
One of the sappiest plots in film history, 31 July 2000
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Author: Michael Asimow (asimow@law.ucla.edu) from Los Angeles

Audiences will groan at the character of Mary Donnell. Bette Davis is normally looking out for number one--and she's definitely her good old self in the first half of the movie. The widow of a gangster, Donnell has become a super-competent legal secretary for a respected attorney in a big firm. She fends off unwanted press attention and generally handles herself quite well as a tough single girl in the big city.

She becomes the mistress of her married boss at the law firm (although the Hays Office undoubtedly required the removal of any breath of sexual content here, it should be pretty obvious to all what is going on). In the second half of the movie, which focusses on Jack Merrick (Henry Fonda), whom Donnell has always loved, she achieves peaks of self-sacrifice that will send you staggering to the bathroom to throw up.

This is the sort of film that gives soap opera a bad name.

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