Don Bellows (Franchot Tone) is a prominent
Heath eventually sees the truth in Don's accusation. She has the show re-opened, and though she truly loves Don, she allows him to marry Gail. As the show becomes a success, Heath dedicates herself to Gordon and salvaging their marriage.
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Dangerous brought Bette Davis his first Oscar. Though she accepted the award, she thought Hepburn should have won that year instead for Alice Adams and speculated that she was given the award since she lost the Oscar the year before with her role as Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage. I have to agree that this film is by far not Davis' best. It was quite boring, making it harder to believe the already stretched outline of the film. My interest only peaked when I could make comparisons between her Joyce Heath and Mildred Rogers at certain points in the film.
On Quality Street everything is an event. Phoebe (Katharine Hepburn) is being courted by Dr. Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone) and her sister Susan (Fay Bainter) and their noisy neighbors expect him to propose soon. When Brown enlists in the British army instead, relating to Phoebe that he has no 'sweetheart' to leave behind, she is crushed. When Brown returns ten years later, he finds that Susan and Phoebe have opened their own school, and are now both considered "old maids" like most of the ladies on Quality Street. When Brown first sees Phoebe he cannot believe how tired she looks. He asks her to attend the homecoming ball but Phoebe refuses- too humiliated by her own looks. Later on a whim Phoebe puts on a ball gown and does her hair up in ringlets the way she did ten years earlier, there is a marked difference in her appearance and demeanor. When Brown stops by again to persuade her to attend the ball, he doesn't recognize her. Phoebe turns this to her advantage by introducing herself as Livvy, Phoebe and Susan’s niece. From the ball on Livvy attracts many male admirers, as well as the suspicions of her nosy spinster neighbors. All indicators point to Brown asking for Livvy’s hand but once again Brown is deceptive. He instead wants to get Livvy alone to lecture her about being a flirt and admits that he is in love with her aunt Phoebe. Disgusted with how she has behaved, Susan and Phoebe turn circles to avoid letting the truth be known. Will Phoebe accept the long-awaited proposal or will she turn down Dr. Brown for her deceit?
While waiting for the jury to decide on her innocence in a murder trial, Mary Martin (Loretta Young) recalls the past that led her up to this moment.
One night while setting up a robbery at a gambling house, Mary is spotted by Tom Mannering, Jr. (Franchot Tone), a rich lawyer. Saving Mary from the shootout with the police when Leo is dicovered, Tom takes her to his nearby house and hides her. Mary asks him to help her find honest work as she is not cut out to be a thief. With Tom's help, Mary finishes secretarial school and is hired as a stenographer in his law firm. At first Mary avoids Tom at work but she eventually breaks down and confesses her love.
While she and Tom plan their future at a Chinese restaurant, Mary is recognized by a policeman who was present at the robbery. To save Tom's reputation, Mary tells him that she has been lying to him all along, that she was playing him to get money and she didn't know he would get so involved. She turns herself over to the policeman but refuses to implicate Leo and is sent to prison for one year. Meanwhile Tom marries a socialite.
When Mary gets out of prison she again has trouble finding work, she is eventually approached by Leo, who has been spying on her since she got out. Grateful that she didn't rat him out he offers her a place in the gang again. Mary returns to Leo and that evening runs into Tom in a nightclub. Leo threatens the unhappily married lawyer and, after a fight in the club, sends his henchmen to kill him. While Mary rushes to warn Tom about Leo, the henchmen mistakenly murder Tom's best friend, Sam(Andy Devine).
Although Mary says Tom means nothing to her, Leo persists that he be killed and prepares to do the deed himself. Mary shoots and kills Leo and is arrested for murder. Back at the courthouse, Mary, who has said nothing about Tom during the trial, is found guilty. Just as the verdict is read, however, Tom bursts into the court. He confesses that he is in love with Mary and what she did, she did to save him. Due to his clout as a lawyer and his father's before him, he is granted a retrial. Tom gets a divorce and everyone lives happily ever after.
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