Hedy Lamarr is a brittle little lady in this film based upon a racy 1930 play that starred Katharine Cornell. Some suggest that the "pre-code" analogue to this is LETTY LYNTON (1932), with Joan Crawford as the "too sexually active" heroine; one of the major differences here is that Joan doesn't try to kill herself or see a psychiatist as Hedy does...which, if nothing else, helps pinpoint when Freud became the rage in Hollywood melodrama.
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