A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
LeRoy Mason
- Toby
- (as Robert Alden)
William Begg
- Banquet Part Guest
- (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Charles A. Browne
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Wallis Clark
- Mr. Dean
- (uncredited)
John Elliott
- Judge
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Banquet Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
- Murray - Headwaiter
- (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe print shown on Turner Classic Movies, from Sony's archives, displays title credits which were modernized and re-designed in 1938 for a re-release that took place only after several minutes worth of deletions were made to meet the standards of the Production Code, which was more rigorously enforced starting in 1934. These revised title credits also display a Production Code Certificate of Approval 4749-R indicating a re-release, so some further trimming most definitely may have occurred.
- GoofsWhen Kitty and David are parked next to the golf course, the windshield on his car is struck with a ball, causing it to crack on Kitty's side. In the next scene where they are parked and his mother and the judge pull abreast of them, the windshield is intact.
- Quotes
Kitty Lane: I hope you'll be interested in my collection of etchings, or whatever it is they hang on the walls here...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
- SoundtracksBridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)
(1850) (uncredited)
from "Lohengrin"
Music by Richard Wagner
Hummed by Regis Toomey
Featured review
Film: average. Stanwyck: awesome.
This is a pretty ordinary little film about a young waitress (Barbara Stanwyck) who falls in love with a wealthy college student (Regis Toomey) who will go on to become a doctor, and how his mother strives to break up their relationship. I rounded it up a bit because of Stanwyck's performance; she is such a natural and has a couple of great scenes. I also liked how she was such a strong woman - her character was toughened by her father's death, and she stands up to unwanted advances while waitressing, endures being sent away to a woman's reformatory on morality charges, and tells Toomey off when he returns to her after she's made it as a dancer. Being committed for trumped up morality reasons is outrageous today, but it was reality then, and the mother had also considered getting her committed to an asylum, a real practice stemming from the 19th century. If you don't like 'em or they're threatening in some way, lock 'em up. The ending is unfortunately a little dippy, but you could do worse than watch this one, and it's almost entirely due to Stanywck.
One of the great scenes has her throwing money in a guy's face after he tries to bribe her into leaving town to get her out of Toomey's life: "What are you trying to make of me - what you wish I was? Something cheap and common, something that money can buy? Well, you can't. Nobody can! You and the nice, decent people who sent you here are the real cheap ones, trying to put a price on something there isn't any price for! If that's being decent, I'm glad I'm common! If that's being rich, I'm glad I'm cheap, and I'm gonna stay cheap! Because no matter how cheap I am, I'm not for sale!"
One of the great scenes has her throwing money in a guy's face after he tries to bribe her into leaving town to get her out of Toomey's life: "What are you trying to make of me - what you wish I was? Something cheap and common, something that money can buy? Well, you can't. Nobody can! You and the nice, decent people who sent you here are the real cheap ones, trying to put a price on something there isn't any price for! If that's being decent, I'm glad I'm common! If that's being rich, I'm glad I'm cheap, and I'm gonna stay cheap! Because no matter how cheap I am, I'm not for sale!"
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- gbill-74877
- Apr 2, 2016
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
- Color
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