Their Own Desire (1929)

After her father (Lewis Stone) leaves her mother (Belle Bennett) for another woman (Helene Millard), a young woman (Norma Shearer) becomes bitter toward men and vows never to get married. That is, until she falls in love with a polished charmer (Robert Montgomery) ..... who just happens to be the son of the woman her father left her mother for! Based on the novel by Sarita Fuller and directed by E. Mason Hopper (PARIS AT MIDNIGHT). An interesting narrative full of potential complications are fleetingly examined until we reach a hokey ending that will please no one and leaves several questions unanswered and one character nowhere to be found. Norma Shearer gives one of those actress-y performances full of indicating but little resemblance to actual human emotion. With Cecil Cunningham and Henry Hebert.