Street Of Women (1932)

A fashion designer (Kay Francis) is in love with a married man (Alan Dinehart) whose wife (Marjorie Gateson) won't give him a divorce. Complications ensue when her younger brother (Allen Vincent) falls in love with her lover's daughter (Gloria Stuart). Based on the novel by Polan Banks and directed by Archie Mayo (THE PETRIFIED FOREST). Boy, did Kay Francis suffer ..... and suffer and suffer during the 1930s at the height of her career. Since this is a pre code film, the adultery is overlooked and it's the chilly and impervious wife (Gates) who's the villainess of the piece. The attitude of the times are still omnipresent as the both the brother (Dinehart) and daughter (Stuart) disapprove of the affair and don't see the lovers' viewpoint. It's a creaky affair but mercifully brief (it runs about an hour) but Kay Francis fans won't be disappointed. With Roland Young and Louise Beavers.