Weekend Marriage (1932)

After her husband (Norman Foster) loses his job, a wife (Loretta Young) sets out to become the breadwinner and succeeds. But her successful career might just be too much for her husband's pride. Based on the novel by Faith Baldwin and directed by Thornton Freeland (FLYING DOWN TO RIO). A repugnant archaic artifact of its era. The film is anti "modern" women who have careers instead of staying home and taking care of their husbands. They're treated as freaks! There's even one horrendous scene where a brutish brother (J. Carrol Naish) brutally and physically forces his sister (Sheila Terry) to give up her career and marry a man she doesn't love. Like other movies of its era, the end finds Young giving up her career and putting on an apron and be a good little wife. Since this is a pre code film, I found two scenes interesting. Young and Foster are shown in bed together rather than double beds or one of them having one foot on the ground. The other is more amusing: Foster goes to the store and buys toilet paper! Films of this era almost never acknowledged that people went to the bathroom! With George Brent, Aline MacMahon, Roscoe Karns and Grant Mitchell.