Any time I see a Stanwyck film I've never seen or am not familiar with I jump on it pretty quickly. I was never on-board with her being a sex symbol or bombshell or really that attractive but one quality she possessed was that she could act....and she could do it well.
Stanwyck's husband dies and she's is expected to mourn in black forever and her mother continually tells her so. She's tired of being pushed into a corner and she decides to try things a little bit different. She goes with friends skiing and meets a man she falls head over heels for. After all this her circle of friends start to spread rumors about her and her reputation and how she's not acting like someone who should after the death of her husband.
I think the one performance I took away from this was the mother character. She was a seriously nosey busybody who continually inflicted her old school wisdom about staying in mourning for her spouse for life. From her personality you can tell the reason why she did was cause no one would wanna deal with this old harpy. I mean she plays one of these characters who you just wanna smack through the screen. Barbara Stanwyck does her usual job of A grade acting so expect that.
I think this film is a time piece of old standards in the way people thought back in the day. Watching, you'll be baffled at why it is or was anyone's business what this lady did 6 months after her husband died. She committed no crime. She just wanted to love again and get out of her previously sheltered life an spread her wings and try something different. Problem is that she has to deal with the "old standards" of the day. I can't imagine sitting back and taking any individuals take on my life and me just accepting or nodding my head in agreement. Thankfully, she gets some courage and bucks the system and the results are an improvement for her life.
Stanwyck's husband dies and she's is expected to mourn in black forever and her mother continually tells her so. She's tired of being pushed into a corner and she decides to try things a little bit different. She goes with friends skiing and meets a man she falls head over heels for. After all this her circle of friends start to spread rumors about her and her reputation and how she's not acting like someone who should after the death of her husband.
I think the one performance I took away from this was the mother character. She was a seriously nosey busybody who continually inflicted her old school wisdom about staying in mourning for her spouse for life. From her personality you can tell the reason why she did was cause no one would wanna deal with this old harpy. I mean she plays one of these characters who you just wanna smack through the screen. Barbara Stanwyck does her usual job of A grade acting so expect that.
I think this film is a time piece of old standards in the way people thought back in the day. Watching, you'll be baffled at why it is or was anyone's business what this lady did 6 months after her husband died. She committed no crime. She just wanted to love again and get out of her previously sheltered life an spread her wings and try something different. Problem is that she has to deal with the "old standards" of the day. I can't imagine sitting back and taking any individuals take on my life and me just accepting or nodding my head in agreement. Thankfully, she gets some courage and bucks the system and the results are an improvement for her life.