French maid Ingrid Bergman comes to look after family of Warner Baxter and short-lived wife Fay Wray and fours sons, who all take to her at once. After the mother's death following the DHM (Dreadful Hollywood Malaise), and the stock market crash of 1910 or 1907 or some year, the sons are sent to school and Bergman back to France; but come the war, fortunes are revived and she returns, though most of the sons are now over there and fighting. Then one of them brings home wife Susan Hayward (good) and all the trouble begins the minute she starts calling Baxter 'dad' far too quickly and kisses him on the mouth...
Naughty older brother tells Hayward she's "lit" - she replies "What are we drinking for - to stay sober?"
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| Hayward seducing Richard Denning |
Bergman is good in Columbia film, written by William Hurlbut and Michael Blankfort, from Charles Bobber's 1940 novel 'Legacy', which has no reviews at all on Goodreads. Neither title is any good.
We know Baxter from such things as 42nd Street and Penthouse (both 1933), The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), and Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937), which perhaps led on to a series of Crime Doctor films in the 1940s which occupied him for most of the decade.
Photographed by J Peverell Marley. Bergman's second US film, on loan from Selznick, but strangely not credited as such.
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