Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery share a bed - this is just before the Hays Code really clamped down. They are a couple who are struggling, she is going to have a baby. His employer is a right bastard, DeWitt Jennings, who only has him employed hoping he will marry his daughter; that game's soon up. His step mum offers them a room in Berlin and a job; she's a right cow - Catherine Doucet, wants to be paid for the room, there is no job, and regularly has 'parties' i.e. runs a brothel. There the couple meet charming rogue, Alan Hale, a winning performance. Then he gets a job with a total cunt Etienne Girardot, and following a disastrous encounter with actor Alan Mowbray he's fired. Luckily Sullavan has at least found lodgings with nice furniture dealer Christian Rub. Though basic, their little flat above the furniture shop at least has a Borzage Balcony.
So yes, another in Borzage's stable of lovers who triumph through love.
We're in Germany - there are signs of social unrest and near the end our hero is assaulted by the police. It's the first in Borzage's 'Weimar trilogy' which continued with Three Comrades and The Mortal Storm.
Photographed by Norbert Brodine, art director Charles Hall, editor Milton Carruth, score by Arthur Kay. A Universal picture produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.
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