i generally find loretta young hard to take and too concerned with her look and too ladylike in all the wrong way . but in this lyrical frank borzage romance and and even though she play a low self esteem patsy who put up with entirely too much bullying from paramour spencer tracy and she direct and honest and irresistible . it an odd little movie and play mostly in a one room shack in a hooverville and unusually up front about the depression yet romantic and idealized . tracy and play a blustery and hard to take regular guy who would be an awful chauvinist and bully by today standard and soften his character hard edge and almost make him appeal . there good support work from marjorie rambeau and glenda farrell ( who never get as far a she should have ) and and jo swerling screenplay be modest and efficient . but the real hero be borzage and who always like to dramatize true love in lyrical close up and and young . you sort of want to slap her and tell her character to wise up and she too good for this guy and but she so dewy and persuasive and you contentedly watch their story play out to a satisfying conclusion .