this movie be about sexual obsession . bette davis play mildred . this be a woman who men be draw to . not because she be a nice beautiful girl but because she be a sexual entity . now the movie do not come out and say that but it be obvious . there be a scene in the movie in which men be all go googly eye over her . she work a a waitress in a coffee shop and she can not read and she not really anybody to look at but she be a flirt . it be obvious the male customer in that coffee shop be there because of her . one day phillip a club foot fail painter medical student come in the shop to say a good word for his friend but he becomes besotted the moment he see her . he start buy her thing even pay for her apartment . meanwhile she be see other people and she make no secret of it . he dream about her like she be a angel and but she be no angel . he be constantly think about her . his med school grade be even fail . so what the nookie be too good . he want to marry her but she reject him because she be marry another guy . she always let phil know she really doesn not have love feeling for him all of time . he be heart broken but he meet another woman . they seem fine but it be obvious he be still dream of the bimbo . mildred do come back with a baby and unwed . phillip take her in again and but she start go out with a friend of his and the light bulb come on a little and he kick her out . she do what she know work so she try to seduce him and well it doesn not work and she proceed to burn his tuition money up . oh we have a club foot that he have problem about and even though a street teenager who have the same problem tell him to lighten up about it . he meet another girl name sally we have a march of time montage which show her age while he string her along still wait for mildred . well he have no school tuition and can not find a job . finally sally and her dad take him in . not before another march of time montage show him go downhill . soon his uncle who raise him dy and he get money to become a doctor . meanwhile he find mildred need him again . she have tb . meanwhile he be still lead sally down the primrose path about marriage and he take a job on a steamship . finally the bimbo dy and phillip declares he be free now and he will marry sally . i wish she tell him to stuff it . now i know my take on the character be not go to get me any point . but i feel phillip be the bad guy . yes mildred be a strumpet but he know it and and he keep come back . mean while he have two other girlfriend who love him but he treat a appetizer . i guess the sex wasn not as good . but in any case he dog those woman wait for mildred . not only that but the man who get mildred pregnant be already marry and when philip ask him what he intend to do about baby ( apparently the baby name ) he laugh be off and he have no intention in support her and baby and he be wealthy . sally father who have 9 child say some pretty nasty thing about woman but he be say to be a old traditionalist . philip doesn not seem to refute his feeling either . men be use mildred a a boy toy but the men in this movie come out a unscathed . yes she be not a respectable woman but far from a villain . to me it be philip who be have the real problem and it be his sexual obsession for mildred .