My Marriage

Claire Trevor thinks her engagement to Kent Taylor is ended when her husband is killed, and it is revealed the source of his wealth was not the financial institution he headed, but the gambling joints. He was no more than a rich crook, and his daughter unworthy to consort with people whose wealth had passed through several generations since it was stolen. To her surprise, he insists on marrying her immediately. She expects his mother, Pauline Frederick, to snub her. Instead, she is kind. Or so it seems.

I enjoy the variety of roles Miss Trevor played while she was Queen of the Fox B lot in the middle 1930s, before she became an A-lister from a western movie (STAGECOACH) she got to play a great variety of roles and work with very talented people who didn't have quite the recognition to command big budgets. The man in charge of Fox's B production, Sol Wurzel, may have had a reputation for vulgarity as great as Harry Cohn, but his unit turned out well-made, entertaining movies that showed profits. Here, with a cast that includes the underrated Paul Kelly, Beryl Mercer, and Henry Kolker, Miss Trevor does not give her most compelling performance. She is, alas, a little too quietly self-pitying and stalwart to be tremendously interesting. But the movie, as a whole, is solid under the direction of George Archainbaud.