Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Ethel Whitehead
George Castleman
Nick Prenta
Martin Blackford
Grady
Patricia Longworth
Sandra
Jim Whitehead
Mrs. Castleman
Joan Crawford always could portray the ambitious, strong-willed character really well - and she does it here too. Living an hand-to-mouth existence with her husband and young son, tragedy befalls her and she ("Ethel/Lorna") determines to start a new life. Initially flogging cigars in an hotel, but soon her beauty helps her meet new, and increasingly influential, wealthy, friends. When she meets "Marty" (Kent Smith), a small time accountant whom she introduces to her restaurant owning pal "Grady" (Hugh Sanders), this honest fellow starts to attract attention of his own, the coat-tails of whom s...