Based on Fanny Hurst’s classic novel of the star-crossed romance between a prominent married man and an Ohio farm woman.
Director – John M Stahl
Producer – Carl Laemmle, Jr
Story – Fannie Hurst
Cast
Irene Dunne … Ray Schmidt
John Boles … Walter D. Saxel
June Clyde … Freda Schmidt
George Meeker … Kurt Shendler
Zasu Pitts … Mrs. Dole
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@46:25 I think Irene Dunne needed a better bra with that sheer top
I just saw the Carol Burnett parody and had to check this movie out, lol. Thank you for uploading this!
Such sorrow. How many people know how it feels to love like that today? "Relationships"….Devotion for a lifetime can be painful and full of problems. But to have a married life partner, when there is love and endurance…that's the way it should be.
Never saw this version. Only remember the 1941 with Boyer and Sullavan and of course the super melodramatic with Susan Hayward and the super hunk John Gavin 1961.
I hate that Ray lets herself be stopped by that silly half sister. I'd have let her jump. Hate those script constructs that are not totally believable. Ah well. 1932. The good side is there are no mobile telephones, computers or tablets. People actually looked at each other and communicated. Nice easy to remember telephone numbers.
It is one thing to be his mistress but she had a career and then gave it all up to just sit and wait for him. Absurd. He's like a selfish child telling her about Europe but never thinks to send her to Europe for a chance to travel. And his reaction to her wanting a baby is terrible. Naturally in those days it would not have been a good idea but more for the child and her. He only thinks of himself. I know the story and how it ends but it would have been good if she took some of her own advice that she gave to her neighbour. She should have married Kurt.
Irene Dunn always wonderful to see and John Bowles was a very sympathetic actor. Wonderful Za su Pitts. Loved her since I was a child. She was in some Tele show 1950's.
Thank you for sharing.
Ps, for anyone who doesn't know the meaning of the title, the "other woman" or mistress of a married man was often known as a "backstreet wife"
Gee, Cincinnati seemed to be plagued with almost constant earthquakes.
So sad and so tragic an ending. My cousin was the same; she met a married man when she was 17 and never married or went out with anyone else. He promised he would leave his wife for 40 years and never did. She finally left him when he refused. She wasted her entire life because he said he would leave his wife & children. She wasted her life & is now an old bitter and violent woman.
A nice print of the movie aside from some of the occasional swaying and distortion in some shots.
The film itself has nice production values and of course Irene Dunne did a great job of making her character sympathetic in a unsympathetic role.
side chick
Well, I was sort of peeking through this, (watched a lot of the great beginning) and then I happened to slide in at 1:16. Man, I don't think I've seen anything this powerful in any movie. Really shook me up. Talk about class acting. Wow. So, I'll recommend if you want to see a film with an ending you'll never forget…Love In The Afternoon. Billy Wilder film with Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. Maybe you should watch it alone. I'm glad I did. I only act like that about once every 30 years…. Didn't see it coming. Wonderful to break down like that every once in a while….don't let anyone tell you about it.
is this set in an earlier period circa 1890s?
great print.
Irene Dunne delivers such a feeling of pathos in almost every scene in this film, particularly when her character Rae is begging Walter to give her a child. He is too selfish to give her anything but the "Back Street" in which she dwells. Too bad Rae doesn't have the courage to marry Kurt once she breaks from Walter mid way thru the movie. I think Walter was a dawg! My apology to dogs!
magnificent–just magnificent.
Wonderful and most enjoyable! I always liked Irene Dunne and somehow this one had slipped by me all these years. Thanks!
the scene at 4:30 where the older lady with a fan is sat rocking……is it just me? Am I tripping out cos the backgrounds look odd…Not just in that one scene either.
WTF–the minute Miss Dunne's character Rae gives the other girl a speech about not being able to find happiness in the "back street of any man's life", she goes running into Walter's arms. And only a few minutes after having made a date with another man who truly loves her. Make up your mind already! Rae is such a tragic character. She must have shared SOME KIND of bedded bliss with Walter to keep running back to him the way she did. I guess Walter must have been her "hunk a hunk of burning love".
I love this movie. Irene Dunn is always great and John Boles is perfect in this role.
MAGNIFICENT Irene DUNNE—I just discovered her!!!!
What an actress—what range!!!!
That final scene is a tour de force!!!
Wow, in the opening scene, at 1:42, the children drinking beer with their folks! Nowadays they would go to jail. When I was a little girl, my Italian father would give us red wine in a cartoon jelly jar. Then mom would add water…
Beautiful very beautiful. That's real love, Love can destroy you or be a blessing, some just marry for different reasons without love in it, am glad he explained to his son, but these days women and men kill each other, and divorce is too much. Thanks for sharing, Merry Christmas
This is a beautiful account of a piece of our history. Watch "After Tomorrow" ~ it's an interesting & sensational account of a couple wanting to be married in those days!
true love ,
Excellent print.
Zasu Pitts doesn't have much of a part!
Wow, beautiful in every way. Totally true to life.
This is a solid version, however, I like the newer version that stars Susan Hayward and John Gavin–what a stunning couple they make.
When I was young and dating, I ran from anyone that was married, engaged, or had a girlfriend. I wanted nothing to do with it. Don't get me wrong, I was attracted a time or two, but I had absolutely nothing to do with them.
Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman skewered this one perfectly.
How sad was this?
How good looks flowed from men back then. Men were both scientifically and emotionally men back then. Today, it…depends.
Susan Hayward owned this role. Irene is not a strong enough actress for this role.
Regardless if a situation like this inflicts genuine pain or conflict on the man, for the woman involved it is always a lose/lose situation. I've known a few throughout my life who lived as 'the other woman' and they always spent holidays alone, had to sneak around for the crumbs of an available moment, and just in general wound up miserable and eventually alone anyway when the man inevitably chose to stay with the wife.
Have your Kleenex ready at the end; right or wrong, weak or strong, good or bad; nothing will matter within the span of the last several minutes of this movie.