you would think that with ingrid bergman and warner baxter that this film would have be a lot well . sadly and the film suffers from difficult to believe character as well a a major plot problem that make some of the character seem brain addle . the film begin with ingrid bergman come to work for the stoddard family . everything be so very peachy and swell the family adore bergman and thing couldn not be more perfect . well and that be until the mother ( fay wray ) die and the stock market crash in 1907 ( wipe out the family fortune ) and bergman be force to go back home to france . this portion of the film be a bit sticky sweet and but not bad . later and after the family fortune have improve and bergman return . the four boy be now all grown and there isn not really a conceivable reason why they would hire her once again a a governess . but and briefly and everything be swell once again . but and when wwi occur and the four all go to war gosh . in the midst of this and one of the son ( david ) bring home his new wife ( susan hayward ) . miss hayward character be a black and white a the others and though while they be all good and swell and she obviously a horny she devil . to make thing bad and she come to live in the family home while david be at war . now here be where the movie get really and really dumb brain achingly dumb . hayward begin an affair with one of david brother but when the father see a silhouette of the lover and bergman enter the room from another entrance and pretend that it be her and not hayward with jack . why . why would any sane person do this to save the butt of an obviously evil and connive woman . this be exactly the sort of excuse bergman need to get rid of the gutter snipe once and for all . this be just a case of lousy writing and make me mad . and most likely do the same to the audience back in 1941. the rest of the movie consist of failed opportunity after fail opportunity for hayward evilness to be expose . this just fly against common sense and make the film a silly melodramatic mess . a expect and however and the truth eventually come out and everyone be swell once again happy to be one big love wonderful family minus the slut and hayward . the film suffers because of poor writing . hayward affair make no sense at least in how it be handle . and and have character who be so gosh darn good or evil ( with nothing in between ) sink this movie to the level of a second rate soap . the only thing that save it at all be the act they try a best they could with a turgid script . suffice to say that the columbia picture writer who do this film should have be slap with a dead chicken .