This film is beautiful, once you get past the premise that it’s okay to cheat on your wife and plan to kill her as long as you feel really bad about it.
Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her part as The Wife. After this she was the lead in the first version of A Star is Born, and apparently turned down the role of Scarlett O’Hara.
Somewhere in storage I have a promo postcard of the original version of this poster.
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