An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.
Louise Beavers
- Sarah
- (uncredited)
Norma Drew
- Anna's Second Maid
- (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
- Miss Gelsey
- (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
- Rutherford
- (uncredited)
Charline Finley
- Baby
- (uncredited)
Marion Lessing
- Mrs. Swiegart
- (uncredited)
Stanley Mack
- Bob
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Production Code Administration (PCA) requested that this film be pulled from theaters because of references to adultery and pregnancy.
- GoofsWhen John is leaving for Europe, in the wide shots of the ship leaving the dock, two different ships are shown, although they have a similar paint scheme.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Complicated Women (2003)
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Kay Francis Warners' #1 Star
This women's movie about a selfless doctor (Kay Francis) who can't have children and her philandering husband (Warren William) was originally a brisk 65 minutes. After the censors were through with it, it was trimmed to 53 minutes.
The problem was that the husband fathers a child with an unmarried woman (Jean Muir) but remains blissfully unaware of it. Muir goes off to a country clinic to have the kid, so no one is the wiser except for Francis and her icy friend (Verree Teasdale).
Muir doesn't want the baby if she can't have the husband, but he's through with her and doesn't know about the baby anyway. He keeps going to and coming from Europe while all this plays out. Francis is about to have an operation so she can have children but is told it's futile.
Ultimately, Muir takes matters into her own hands to resolve the problem.
Francis, Muir, and Teasdale are all quite good but Warren doesn't have much to do since he's not involved in the main plot. Emma Dunn is the nurse, Phillip Reed shows up for a second, and Ann Shoemaker has one scene at a party.
It would be interesting to see what ended up on the cutting room floor.
The problem was that the husband fathers a child with an unmarried woman (Jean Muir) but remains blissfully unaware of it. Muir goes off to a country clinic to have the kid, so no one is the wiser except for Francis and her icy friend (Verree Teasdale).
Muir doesn't want the baby if she can't have the husband, but he's through with her and doesn't know about the baby anyway. He keeps going to and coming from Europe while all this plays out. Francis is about to have an operation so she can have children but is told it's futile.
Ultimately, Muir takes matters into her own hands to resolve the problem.
Francis, Muir, and Teasdale are all quite good but Warren doesn't have much to do since he's not involved in the main plot. Emma Dunn is the nurse, Phillip Reed shows up for a second, and Ann Shoemaker has one scene at a party.
It would be interesting to see what ended up on the cutting room floor.
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- drednm
- Apr 28, 2018
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- Budget
- $167,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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