The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert StevensonDirector
- Frank SkinnerOriginal Music Composer
- Bruce ManningScreenplay
- Felix JacksonScreenplay
Cast
- Charles BoyerWalter Louis Saxel
- Margaret SullavanRay Smith
- Richard CarlsonCurt Stanton
- Frank McHughEd Porter
- Tim HoltRichard Saxel
- Frank JenksHarry Niles
- Esther DaleMrs. Smith
- Peggy StewartFreda Smith
- Samuel S. HindsFelix Darren
- Nell O'DayElizabeth Saxel
- Nella WalkerCorinne Saxel
- Cecil CunninghamMrs. Miller
Stills
Themes
marriageremakemistressdevotiongossipkept womanthe other womanloyal mistress