To contradict with most of the reviews - the heroine, Alice (June) isn't as bad as implied. Probably, as the mother said in the end, she didn't know the best.
Alice is a spoilt girl of a rich family, and after the father has died, and the income has become nil, the mother didn't put any check on her lifestyle.
To be fair on her, she didn't seem to know the ground condition, whether her mother living on pension given by Fred, or even that Fred's business has become bankrupt. When she came to know she rushed to sell her cherished Sable to pay Fred's charities. That's not selfishness, though spoilt, she was undoubtedly. Fred did try to put some check, but he was too much in love to act tough.
The suspicion raising its ugly head was natural, under the circumstances, and one can't fault Fred on that. How would he know that unlike Esther, Alice adored her husband ? The decision to divorce and even go with Morell was the strong indignation and rebound - again justifiable - since till then she didn't so anything against Haye's Code (though Esther did) and she didn't know that the fisrt $2K and later $32K were all advances from Morell, and not really gain from the game of chance. Though I wondered while watching why did Morell change his spots ? His decision to marry Alice after her Paris divorce doesn't go with his character.
Not as bad, since the characters are not as unbelievable or selfish or creepy as hinted in reviews, here as well as elsewhere (in fact that portrayel made me delay watching it). The people were generally believable, with the usual shortcomings, may be a bit more in Morell, but they do exist aplenty in real life.
Probably the movie would have been a bit better if it was stretheched a bit more at least another 15 minutes to preferably half an hour, since some times it went a bit fast and considering the actors, at least as they acted here, they could easily have managed that extra time, without making it an eyesore. This probably is the major negative point.