Once To Every Woman (1934)

A supervising nurse (Fay Wray) is in love with a doctor (Walter Byron), who unknown to her is a womanizing Lothario. She ignores the amorous attention of the hospital's top surgeon (Ralph Bellamy). Based on the short story KALEIDOSCOPE IN K by A.J. Cronin (KEYS OF THE KINGDOM) and directed by Lambert Hillyer (THE INVISIBLE RAY). A medical soap opera that's really two separate stories weaved together. There's the romantic triangle involving Wray, Bellamy and Byron and then there's the narrative of a young doctor (Bellamy) with new ideas fighting with the head of surgery (Walter Connolly) who resists new technology and methods in the medical profession. It's a tight compact (it runs just over an hour) little movie that manages not to insult our intelligence and shine a light on medical ethics circa 1934. With Mary Carlisle, Jane Darwell and Billie Seward.