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      1932 1h 12m Drama List
      Reviews 39% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Lovely waitress Kitty Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is all set to marry the rich and debonair David Livingston (Regis Toomey). But David's snobbish mother, Helen (Clara Blandick), doesn't want her son consorting with Kitty's kind, so she pulls some strings with her powerful friends and has the young woman sent to jail. When Kitty gets out, she takes a singing gig in a nightclub and skyrockets to fame. David tracks Kitty down and tries to rekindle things, while Helen works on a new scheme to deter him. Read More Read Less

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Not even the likable Barbara Stanwyck can save this clunker. Rated: C- Jan 19, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Steve D Toomey isn't good enough to pull off the end but the rest is great. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/05/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a pretty ordinary little film about a young waitress (Barbara Stanwyck) who falls in love with a wealthy college student (Regis Toomey) who will go on to become a doctor, and how his mother strives to break up their relationship. I rounded it up a bit because of Stanwyck's performance; she is such a natural and has a couple of great scenes. I also liked how she was such a strong woman - her character was toughened by her father's death, and she stands up to unwanted advances while waitressing, endures being sent away to a woman's reformatory on morality charges, and tells Toomey off when he returns to her after she's made it as a dancer. Being committed for trumped up morality reasons is outrageous today, but it was reality then, and the mother had also considered getting her committed to an asylum, a real practice stemming from the 19th century. If you don't like 'em or they're threatening in some way, lock 'em up. The ending is unfortunately a little dippy, but you could do worse than watch this one, and it's almost entirely due to Stanywck. One of the great scenes has her throwing money in a guy's face after he tries to bribe her into leaving town to get her out of Toomey's life: "What are you trying to make of me - what you wish I was? Something cheap and common, something that money can buy? Well, you can't. Nobody can! You and the nice, decent people who sent you here are the real cheap ones, trying to put a price on something there isn't any price for! If that's being decent, I'm glad I'm common! If that's being rich, I'm glad I'm cheap, and I'm gonna stay cheap! Because no matter how cheap I am, I'm not for sale!" Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member a not so good early movie of Capra, but still it wasnt so bad eaither Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Hopelessly cliche story but Stanwyck rises above it with her great talent and intensity. She looks amazing as well. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty good little drama, loses some steam in the 2nd half/last third or so, and the ending is a little weak, too. Again, Barbara Stanwyck was so gorgeous; the biggest problem is when her character becomes successful in the span of one minute of film time, right after showing her getting out the reform prison place (and the judge, whom for some reason sets Kitty up - is he trying to bang the old lady? Don't get it - never gets any comeuppance for his awful behavior. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Soap opera storyline but Barbara Stanwyck is still fabulous. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Lovely waitress Kitty Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is all set to marry the rich and debonair David Livingston (Regis Toomey). But David's snobbish mother, Helen (Clara Blandick), doesn't want her son consorting with Kitty's kind, so she pulls some strings with her powerful friends and has the young woman sent to jail. When Kitty gets out, she takes a singing gig in a nightclub and skyrockets to fame. David tracks Kitty down and tries to rekindle things, while Helen works on a new scheme to deter him.
      Director
      Nick Grinde
      Screenwriter
      Sarah Y. Mason
      Production Co
      Columbia Pictures
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 8, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 12m