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It happens in the best of families. But you'd never think it could happen to her!
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Jun 26, 2022 · via TMDB
Bette Davis at her best took some beating, and here is one such an example. Together with expertly delivered performances from Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper we are presented with an emotional roller-coaster of a film. Davis starts as the hen-pecked daughter of Cooper, until she encounters Rains' "Dr. Jaquith" who decides that he may be able to help this erstwhile shy spinster find herself a little purpose in life. She is despatched on a cruise liner where she meets the married "Jerry" (Paul Henried) and though there is a semblance of a romance, it can come to nothing and it is only after a long, occasionally torrid but always riveting series of scenarios, that we begin to arrive at anything that might resemble a conclusion. Irving Rapper does really well to allow Max Steiner's score and an excellent Casey Robinson screenplay to empower his stars to create and develop characters in whom - especially Davis - we can readily invest. I have never been Henreid's biggest fan, I always found him just a little bit insipid, but he works well here as does a really on form Cooper in the role of her mother. Seen very recently on a big screen again after almost 80 years, and it has lost none of it's style, panache and wonderfully paced sense of the dramatic. Great stuff!
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Bette Davis
Charlotte Vale
Paul Henreid
Jeremiah 'Jerry' Duvaux Durrance
Claude Rains
Dr. Jaquith
Gladys Cooper
Mrs. Henry Vale
Bonita Granville
June Vale
John Loder
Elliot Livingston
Ilka Chase
Lisa Vale
Lee Patrick
Deb McIntyre
Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Thompson
Katharine Alexander
Miss Trask
James Rennie
Frank McIntyre
Mary Wickes
Dora Pickford
Tod Andrews
Dr. Dan Regan (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Party Guest (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril
Celestine (uncredited)
Charles Drake
Leslie Trotter (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Hilda (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Aunt Hester (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Concert Audience Member (uncredited)
George Lessey
Uncle Herbert (uncredited)
Tempe Pigott
Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Giuseppe (uncredited)
Constance Purdy
Rosa (uncredited)
Janis Wilson
Christine 'Tina' Durrance (uncredited)
Ian Wolfe
Lloyd (uncredited)
Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
Irving Rapper
Director
Don Siegel
Other
Hal B. Wallis
Producer
Hugo Friedhofer
Music Arranger
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
Casey Robinson
Screenplay
Oct 22, 1942
New York City, New York
Oct 31, 1942
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