| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Ruth Chatterton |
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Ruth Chatterton is just awful in her Oscar nominated role as a wife in an unhappy marriage whose good-for-nothing husband kidnaps their baby only to give him away to strangers. She goes off to Europe in search of them, finding her husband, who is fighting in WWI, on his death bed in a hospital. His last words are the name of the family he gave the baby to, and she returns to America to claim him. Chatterton is barely comprehensible in a thick accent and hilariously overreacts more than once to bad news.
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