A ballad of blasted love-a child-and Reno!
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: Paul Lukas, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, May Robson, David Holt, Ralph Forbes, Catherine Doucet, Beryl Mercer
A ballad of blasted love-a child-and Reno!
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
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A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve d…
1h 18m
May 10, 1935
Edward Ludwig
Paul Lukas, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson
Romance, Drama
NR