When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.
Baby LeRoy
- Bobby, Dora's Baby at 1 Year
- (as Baby Le Roy)
Jean Acker
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Bobbe Arnst
- Woman in Sally's Apartment
- (uncredited)
Carlena Beard
- Sally - the Little Black Girl
- (uncredited)
James Burke
- Taxicab Driver
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe uncredited little black girl who plays "Sally the fan" whom Claudette Colbert's character visits is played by Carlena Beard, the younger sister of Matthew "Stymie" Beard of The Little Rascals.
- Quotes
Mimi Benton: Well, I'll tell you what happened to her. While you were touring China, she went through hell. It's a nice place, you must go there someday.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Complicated Women (2003)
- SoundtracksGive Me Liberty or Give Me Love
(1933)
Music by Ralph Rainger
Lyric by Leo Robin
Played during the opening credits and at the end
Sung by Claudette Colbert at a nightclub
Reprised by Claudette Colbert at a nightclub
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early tour de force for Colbert
This is a touching if not extraordinary film about a woman who has a child out of wedlock, gives it up for adoption and suffers a great deal despite achieving wealth, glamour and fame first as a nightclub torch singer and then as a children's radio personality. This may have been Claudette Colbert's first great cinematic tour de force, gorgeously photographed by Karl Struss (through whose lens she also appeared to huge advantage in Sign of the Cross and Four Frightened People), sheathed in a variety of Travis Banton gowns and singing rather ludicrous songs by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin in her own voice and let's give her a nod for that! The role is as juicy as can be, giving her the opportunity to essay mother love, humiliation, anger, despair, bitterness, drunkenness, nobility, eroticism - you name it. What a showcase! The screen bursts with life when she is at its center. The other performers, including an underused Lyda Roberti as a fellow unwed mother and a stiff David Manners as the father of the child, serve as window dressing. The only standout aside from Colbert is Ethel Griffies as Manners's stodgy, coldhearted aunt; acting like hers, in the grand old fashion, died decades ago but not until talkies captured the work of some of its practitioners, and it is still a treat to watch.
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- mukava991
- Jun 18, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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