'Faithless' marked the end of Tallulah Bankhead's brief pre-Code spell in Hollywood - and effectively of her film career - since although MGM were sufficiently impressed with her work in this (despite several flops in a row for Paramount) to offer her a contract, she'd had it with Hollywood and thereafter filmed only very occasionally.
After starting conventionally enough with her as a dizzy young heiress - who we're told is 24 but was actually thirty and if anything looks even older - who loses all her money (a relatively young-looking Hugh Herbert is remarkably effective at this point as an abrasive would-be sugar daddy), this extremely misleadingly-titled film proves for MGM to be a surprisingly raw look at life on the breadline with her new husband Robert Montgomery (two years younger than her but looking even younger) and forced to sell herself on the streets to pay her doctors bills. (Thank goodness that wouldn't happen now in the 21st Century.)
Being Tallulah she really seems too worldly & resilient to convincingly put up with the woes the Depression throws her way; which now force her to sell to the highest bitter what in reality she enthusiastically gave away for free. And of course it has one of those 'happy' endings which in reality solve nothing...
After starting conventionally enough with her as a dizzy young heiress - who we're told is 24 but was actually thirty and if anything looks even older - who loses all her money (a relatively young-looking Hugh Herbert is remarkably effective at this point as an abrasive would-be sugar daddy), this extremely misleadingly-titled film proves for MGM to be a surprisingly raw look at life on the breadline with her new husband Robert Montgomery (two years younger than her but looking even younger) and forced to sell herself on the streets to pay her doctors bills. (Thank goodness that wouldn't happen now in the 21st Century.)
Being Tallulah she really seems too worldly & resilient to convincingly put up with the woes the Depression throws her way; which now force her to sell to the highest bitter what in reality she enthusiastically gave away for free. And of course it has one of those 'happy' endings which in reality solve nothing...