After a decade after scoring in comic and musical roles, Ginger Rogers moved onto dramatic parts with her Oscar Winning role in "Kitty Foyle" and this artistic sleeper which shows her dramatic side to equal zeal. She is a poor girl whose father is a drunk and whose mother is an aging prostitute. Untrustful of men, she disguises herself as a teenager, but after an afternoon with the happy-go- lucky Joel McCrea, she changes her tube, her looks, her demeanor. But even as a happily married woman, she can't escape her family history, and an encounter between McCrea and her clan leads to his disgust and trouble in paradise.
Marjorie Rambeau received much praise for her performance as Rogers' mother, an aging glamour girl who is in an unhappy marriage and tries to escape the wretchedness of her existence with monetary favors from other men. She goes from tough to tender to winsome and regretful with little ease. Queenie Vassar threatens to walk away with the picture as Rambeau's crude mother, a very miserable creature whose actions have lead to everybody's misery.
The lovable Henry Travers offers warm wisdom as the restaurant owner who encounters Rogers and calms her wariness by saying, "I'm just an old hunk of buzzard bait." By mixing comedy into the drama (the typical Ginger wise-cracks), this reveals the restlessness of this family and reveals the sadness underneath. Rogers and McCrea are a gorgeous couple. I can see why this mo not have succeeded because it can be rather depressing at times. But it is closer to reality than many films of the time and really touches the heart.
Marjorie Rambeau received much praise for her performance as Rogers' mother, an aging glamour girl who is in an unhappy marriage and tries to escape the wretchedness of her existence with monetary favors from other men. She goes from tough to tender to winsome and regretful with little ease. Queenie Vassar threatens to walk away with the picture as Rambeau's crude mother, a very miserable creature whose actions have lead to everybody's misery.
The lovable Henry Travers offers warm wisdom as the restaurant owner who encounters Rogers and calms her wariness by saying, "I'm just an old hunk of buzzard bait." By mixing comedy into the drama (the typical Ginger wise-cracks), this reveals the restlessness of this family and reveals the sadness underneath. Rogers and McCrea are a gorgeous couple. I can see why this mo not have succeeded because it can be rather depressing at times. But it is closer to reality than many films of the time and really touches the heart.