Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

Barbara Stanwyck
as Jessica Drummond

George Brent
as Major Scott Landis

Warner Anderson
as Frank Everett

Lucile Watson
as Mary Kimball

John Ridgely
as Cary Abbott

Eve Arden
as Ginna Abbott

Jerome Cowan
as George Van Orman

Esther Dale
as Anna

Scotty Beckett
as Kim Drummond

Bobby Cooper
as Keith Drummond
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To me, Barbara Stanwyck is such the prototypical noir femme fatale, but her Pre-Code works like 'Baby Face' are masterpieces, and her other works, in which she shows her vulnerability, are just as appetizing to the cinephile. Excellent for fans of drama or melodrama, especially from that era, when a...