Wow. This is the embodiment of the phrase "Women's Picture." In case you don't know, a Woman's Picture was this thing rampant from the late '30's to the '40's that starred Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne, or a handfull of other female stars of the same stature. Very sappy, very melodramatic, but with enough redeeming value to still be loads of fun 65 years later.
Still, I maintain that Bette Davis was always much better when she played a bitch. I mean really. Don't you want to chuck something at poor old Louise in this movie? When she looks all smug at Errol Flynn (who is quite tasty in this) when he wants to know how she bought their Charlie Brown Christmast tree and goes "With pennies and nickles!" or something to that effect with her voice going up about as high as possible with the phrase "pennies and nickles!" Ugh, you want to hit her.
But aside from that, a very good movie, although one must wonder why Warner Bros. kept insisting that Jane Bryan looked like someone who could be related to Bette Davis, since she played her sister in this and "Marked Woman," and she played her illegitimate daughter in "The Old Maid."
Still, I maintain that Bette Davis was always much better when she played a bitch. I mean really. Don't you want to chuck something at poor old Louise in this movie? When she looks all smug at Errol Flynn (who is quite tasty in this) when he wants to know how she bought their Charlie Brown Christmast tree and goes "With pennies and nickles!" or something to that effect with her voice going up about as high as possible with the phrase "pennies and nickles!" Ugh, you want to hit her.
But aside from that, a very good movie, although one must wonder why Warner Bros. kept insisting that Jane Bryan looked like someone who could be related to Bette Davis, since she played her sister in this and "Marked Woman," and she played her illegitimate daughter in "The Old Maid."