I Found Stella Parish (1935)

Set in London, a blackmailer (Barton MacLane) shows up in the dressing room of a famous stage actress (Kay Francis) and threatens to expose her dark past. She goes into hiding with her young daughter (Sybil Jason) by fleeing to the United States, unaware a newspaper reporter (Ian Hunter) is hot on her trail. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy (QUO VADIS). A soap opera along the lines of MADAME X with Kay Francis as the mother forced to give up her daughter and reduced from being a great stage actress to working in burlesque and do LeRoy and Francis wring every teardrop they can! It's the kind of hokey kitsch that you could/should laugh at but strong enough that you can't help but get a lump in your throat! Kay Francis fans should eat this up. With Paul Lukas and Jessie Ralph.