
Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found religious experience with her closest friends - only to drive them crazy. Meanwhile, her husband Barrie, and daughter Blossom yearn for a stable family life. Barrie will even become sober, hoping that Susan will heed her own advice, and save their marriage and family.... (Full plot summary below)
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Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found religious experience with her closest friends - only to drive them crazy. Meanwhile, her husband Barrie, and daughter Blossom yearn for a stable family life. Barrie will even become sober, hoping that Susan will heed her own advice, and save their marriage and family.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyOne of George Cukor's worst films due to lack of sympathetic charcater, made worse by Joan Crawford's lackluster performance; MGM queen Norma Shearer turned down the role because she didn't want to play a mature woman with children! |
| User ReviewK Da great movie. Joan Crawford works very well with the cast and a small bu tgood role for Rita Hayworth |
| User ReviewGregory WAfter norna Sheer said no to playing the mother of a teenage daughter Joan napped up this role fast! Under cukors fast pased direction Joan handles the scatter brained role of susan quite well,although the movie falls a lil flat near the end. still a great Joan role that lead to one of her finest under cukor in A WOMAN"S FACE. |
| User ReviewKevin Rsome say this is george cukor's worst film but i didnt think it was that bad |
| User ReviewBeth Ann GNorma Shearer may have turned down the role of Susan because she thought the role aging (She couldn't admit to being old enough to have a teenaged daughter), but she would have shown better instincts for avoiding such an unlikeable character in order to protect her screen persona. Joan Crawford shows no such compunction. She throws herself into the role, and at times she appears to be playing Norma Shearer playing Susan. If you've seen Norma Shearer playing the fast-talking, scatterbrained heroine of Noel Coward's Private Lives, you'll know what I mean. Susan is a nasty piece of work. A socialite, she follows every new fad, always eager for a new experience and never once thinking of the shattered family she left behind. She joins a movement and claims to have found God, and in the name of her new calling, she plays with her friends' lives. She zeroes in on their weaknesses and indiscretions and then confronts them to confess their sins to their peers. Susan herself is guilty of spiritual bypass. The only sin she'll confess is touching up her hair, but she's neglected her daughter and let her husband (Fredric March) slide into alcoholism with nary an effort to save him. She's too busy focusing on herself and "saving" others. It's only when March's Barrie strikes a deal with Susan that she deigns to spend any time with her family. If Barrie cannot stay sober while Susan lives with them for the summer, then he finally will grant her the divorce she's been haranguing him for. Over the season, he hopes to win back his wife and give his daughter a mother, while Susan awaits his relapse. Frankly it's hard to see why Barrie still carries a torch for Susan, even if she's Crawford during her glamorous period, but it's easy to see how badly their socially inept daughter Blossom needs her mother. Rita Quigley's Blossom is heartbreaking in how easily she lights up and then gives up whenever Mother's momentary attention is withdrawn. It's for her sake you'll wish for Barrie to win his wager. |
| User ReviewPatti CProbably the most irritating character Crawford ever played as a deluded socialite who feels she's found god and foists it on those around here to their detriment. Of course her family suffers. Interesting as an artifact. |
| User ReviewKatie MAn interesting premise ruined by unlikable characters and a underspirited meanness. |