A three girls film but really the focus is only on two: Ann Dvorak, as the hoity one who marries a rich lawyer and has a kid but gets bad post natal depression and really goes off the rails, running off with a gambler and getting hooked on cocaine (beautifully alluded to). There’s also Joan Blondell as the good time girl who goes to reform school and becomes a show girl, but is actually really nice, and marries the lawyer. Bette Davis is the third but doesn’t do much except look after the kid and wears a swimsuit in one scene which is weird. At the end Blondell, Davis and Warren William are living in this ménage a trios – Davis is the nanny, but is that all…? Maybe I’m reading too much in to it. William is dull but the three leads are terrific and the support includes an electrifying young Humphrey Bogart plus Allen Jenkins and Edward Arnold.
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