Complicating matters further, Ken is trying to sign a large roofing contract with Dexter, and Jane does not want Ken to know that she is working. Jane becomes the secretary of architect Bernard Dexter, who immediately becomes infatuated with her. Jane does not want a divorce, however, and decides to find out what mystical power secretaries hold over their bosses. Jane's much-married friend Blanche finds expensive perfume in Kitty's desk, and when Ken arrives home late that night with its scent, Jane is forced to face the fact that her husband has gone astray. Jane decides to move the party to Ken's office, but when they arrive, only the cleaning ladies are at work. Jane has a surprise party at their apartment to commemorate the event, but Ken's secretary Kitty Frazier, calls to say that Ken will be working very late that night. Despite all the hints Jane leaves for her husband, Ken has completely forgotten the occasion. Brett).It is the second wedding anniversary of Ken and Jane Norton, but there is trouble in their lovers' paradise. (A few years later, Loretta Young would deal with her own unwed mother drama: after becoming pregnant after an affair with then-married Clark Gable, she secretly gave birth to "adopted" daughter Judith).Ĭast: Loretta Young (Grace Sutton), Eric Linden (Jed Sutton), Aline MacMahon (Miss Bowers), Glenda Farrell (Florette Darien), Clara Blandick (Mrs. Young is tremendously sympathetic in this movie, whether weeping when her husband brings her roses or serenely facing her fate. Remade in a sanitized remake as A Child Is Born (1940), this original is more brutal in a Depression-era way about the economic and personal cost of motherhood, as also expressed by subplots about a vaudeville dancer (Glenda Farrell) who fears birthing the twins she carries will doom her to single motherhood and poverty. Only 19 years old, the already madonna-esque starlet made a string of semi-lurid "women's pictures" like Play Girl (1932), Weekend Marriage (1932), and this sentimental drama about a pregnant felon (Young) who must choose between a lethal C-section or an abortion. After she dies, Jed refuses to see the baby girl, but wise Nurse Bowers places the child in his arms, and as with the mothers, he cannot resist her charms. When the doctors ask Jed to choose between saving Grace or the baby, he chooses Grace, but she herself insists that the doctors operate and save the baby. Down the hall, things are going badly for Grace. Miss Layton has also given up on her progressive plans for her baby. She cradles one baby herself and discovers mother love. While Jed waits anxiously, Florette is appalled by the plans that the prospective adoptive mother of her twins has concocted. After a touching farewell with Jed, Grace, whose health has suffered from prison conditions, is taken into the labor room. An Italian woman quietly sobs when she learns that her newborn has died. While the women debate their various theories, a woman who wants a baby so much that she has become demented wanders in from another ward. Miss Layton has decided opinions about child rearing and has no intention of being a doting mother. In contrast, Florette, a showgirl, just wants to get rid of her twins as soon as possible. West, mother of six children, thinks babies are what give meaning to women's lives. On the ward, the women have varied feelings about motherhood. Most agree that the man she killed deserved to die, and Nurse Bowers sympathetically allows Grace's concerned husband Jed unlimited time with his wife. Things liven up when Grace Sutton is transferred from the prison where she is being held for murder. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily.
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