| Synopsis: Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her return to Louisiana after a brief stay in France, discovers her sister Louise Barbara O'Neil) has recently gotten engaged. Gilberta (Rainer) quickly finds herself attracted to her sister's fiance George (Melvyn Douglas), and eventually steals him for herself. Though they marry and have a son together, Gilberta is unable to to cope with the stress and responsibility involved in running ... Full Synopsis
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| Luise Rainer, the Austrian actress who had just collected back-to-back Academy Awards for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937), is completely out to sea in this turgid melodrama which borrows heavily from both Camille (1937) and Zaza, two superior dramas also adapted for the screen by Zoe Akins. But although the years have not been kind to Rainer's kittenish acting style most of the ... Read Review | |
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