A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
ex-lover
alcoholism
playwright
mistress
heiress
gossip columnist
pre-code
open marriage
woman director
stage actress
adulterous affair
unconventional arrangement
alcoholic husband
adulterous husband
modern woman
Trailer
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3.6 / 5
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Cast
Sylvia Sidney
Joan Prentice
Fredric March
Jerry Corbett
Adrianne Allen
Claire Hempstead
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Buck
George Irving
Mr. Prentice
Esther Howard
Vi
Florence Britton
Charlcie
Charles Coleman
Richard Damery
Cary Grant
Charlie Baxter
Kent Taylor
Greg Boleslavsky
Robert Greig
Baritone Bartender (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Reporter (uncredited)
Crew
Dorothy Arzner
Director
Edwin Justus Mayer
Screenplay
John Leipold
Original Music Composer
Charles Barton
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
47 reviews
mimi
6.0★ · 04/14/26
i'd recognize skippy the dog anywhere
i'd recognize skippy the dog anywhere
Emily Pantell
10.0★ · 03/05/26
TEAAAAAAAAAA my class was literally gasping out loud as we watched it
TEAAAAAAAAAA my class was literally gasping out loud as we watched it
Batisoso
10.0★ · 01/18/26
God bless pre-code Hollywood
God bless pre-code Hollywood
Lizzie
10.0★ · 01/06/26
When you've got 30 minutes left from another day so you can log the movie today
When you've got 30 minutes left from another day so you can log the movie today
Larrycw
9.0★ · 11/27/25
It’s impossible to watch this and not lament and loathe the Hays Code for the irreparable damage it did to cinematic and social progress.
Hopefully William Hays merrily went to Hell.
It’s impossible to watch this and not lament and loathe the Hays Code for the irreparable damage it did to cinematic and social progress.
