although this film put davis on the map due to her brilliantly intense performance a the illiterate guttersnipe waitress or prostitute mildred rogers and this film be strangely unsatisfying to me a a whole . the acting be indeed fine in most every respect . what i can not fathom for the life of me be just how or why phillip and a sensitive and well bred young man would take the constant abuse this tramp constantly dish out towards him represent i find his naive tolerance quite ridiculously unbelievable in certain respect . yes and i know he be a sensitive club foot and introvert intellectual . but davis be such a venomous witch that nobody that culture would tolerate her attitude or action and make it believable . davis be astound in her role represent yes and she may go overboard in her histrionics now and then and but it a vividly creative portrayal any which way you look at it . too bad she wasn not play a gangster moll . her character would have be completely believable a a tramp among low life .