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Writer:
Edmund Goulding (written by)
Release Date:
18 September 1937 (USA)
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Love Broke Her Heart !
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One of the sappiest plots in film history
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(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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93 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Vitaphone)
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Australia:G |
USA:Approved (PCA #3296)
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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?
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Featured in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV)
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That Certain Woman
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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.