1939 Directed by Lambert Hillyer
A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
USA
USA
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I just wish they had developed the plot more about the adopted daughter and stayed away from doctor drama plot. full review here:
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A young woman, freshly engaged to a successful doctor, is unaware of a big secret: her mother served a life sentence in prison, saved from the gallows only by giving birth. Meanwhile, a friend of the prisoner's is released, and her husband is intent on getting her back into a life of crime. Say, by blackmailing the prisoner's daughter....
The young woman learns the awful truth, then tries to drop the doctor to spare him the scandal.
All of that is much more satisfactory than the b-plot, which involves doctors jockeying for position as chief of staff, to succeed their retiring leader.
The overwrought melodramatic style is a little hard to take, and there's a hard-to-swallow development in the last…
The last film to come out of the short-lived Crescent Pictures company which was distributed through Monogram at the time of it's demise. Like just about all of their films, it's a dreary production on a very tight budget. Has some decent actors on their last legs doing alright with the limitation, but the blackmailing Should a Girl Marry? (1939) never comes alive.
