Possessed,
but not married, should be the subtitle of this early 30s Crawford melodrama. Oh, Gable's in it, too. But the star is clearly Crawford. It's her story, anyway. Small town, box factory girl goes to the big city, meets a millionaire, becomes his main bitch but learns she can't marry him. Mind you, Gable never tells her that but she and all the world expect Crawford to disappear when he's asked to run for governor. And as Crawford reportedly said to studio chief, Louis Mayer, "You've always given me my share of bad scripts because you knew I'd make them work", she was right with this one too. In fact, imo, it's the Crawford/Gable selections that make the entire retrospective worth watching.