A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Barbara Stanwyck
as Lily Powers

George Brent
as Courtland Trenholm

Donald Cook
as Ned Stevens

Alphonse Ethier
as Adolf Cragg

Henry Kolker
as J.R. Carter

Margaret Lindsay
as Ann Carter

Arthur Hohl
as Ed Sipple

John Wayne
as Jimmy McCoy Jr.

Robert Barrat
as Nick Powers

Douglass Dumbrille
as Brody
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Barbara Stanwyck is at the top of her game in this cracking story of a young girl "Lily" who thanks to her pal "Cragg" (Alphonse Ethier) and some ideology from Nietzsche quickly discovers that she can use her femininity and her brains to get on in life. When her exploitative father has a rather unfo...