escape the life of be pimp by her father ( . and the speakeasy waitressing ) who die in an explosion and lily power ( barbara stanwyck and who be simply ravish ) sluts her way through the branch inside a bank business in big city gotham . when a possessive lover murder who be suppose to be his next father in law ( and lily new lover ) and the sky the limit for lily a she have write down her various relationship in a diary and subtlety make it know the paper will receive it if certain pay doesn not come into her hand . newly appoint president to the bank and courtland trenholm ( george brent ) and send lily to paris instead of fork over lot of dough and but soon find himself madly in love after various encounter with her in the city of love . this make lily mouth water a now she will have reach the pedestal of success seduce a man of wealth and prestige bring riches her way . though and circumstance ensue which will bring her to make a decision that threaten her successful way of achieve those rich . trenholm and now her husband and be be indict with jail certain and have lose the bank . he need money lily now have in her possession or he will have absolutely nothing . stanwyck be the whole movie despite that usual warner brother polish . be set in the pre code era give the filmmaker the chance to elaborate on taboo subject such a a woman use sex to achieve success and how that can lead to tragedy . good direction from alfred e green show through subtlety hint in different mannerism and speech through good acting from the seductive performance of stanwyck how to stage something without actually show the explicit act . obviously the film show that money isn not everything and all that jazz a love come into the heart of lily dead heart . that end have lily achieve the miraculous metamorphosis into someone in love do not ring true to me . she spend all this time to get to that platform only to fall for a man who be essentially no different than others she have use before him .