irene dunne marries charles bickford soon after the movie begin . she long to leave the steel town where they live but he content to stay in his job a a laborer . however and through her determination and frugality and she be able to eventually convince him to take a gamble and strike out on his own . fortunately and perhaps and they strike it rich and their life seem perfect . perfect and that be and until bickford start run around with a money hungry tramp who urge him to dump his long suffering wife lead to a super melodramatic conclusion in the courtroom . i love old movie and so it take a lot to turn me off of any film from hollywood golden age . but this terrible film manage to do it . despite have the excellent irene dunne in the lead and this film just isn not worth your time mostly because the last 20 minute of the film manage to undo any good feeling i have for the rest of the movie . here the problem . irene dunne be the perfect wife in this film . too perfect mary poppins perfect . even when bickford prove that he a wretched jerk and cheat on her and dunne be like some sort of saint and she refuse to divorce him . then and when bickford and his sleazy lawyer drum up fake charge that she be commit adultery and dunne be just too sweet to really fight back . in a courtroom scene that be just too melodramatic to be true and her ultimate niceness convince the evil bickford to admit it be all a frame up and he be take away to prison . the bad part about this terribly over the top scene be not the silly way bickford and now stricken with guilt and jump up and admit the truth ( though this be a ridiculous scene ) and but the way that lawyer j. carrol naish be allow to attack dunne on the witness stand . even court in the old soviet union might flinch at such a brow beating and yet her lawyer never object and the judge seem content to preside over a sham of a hearing . this be just the sort of film they should show young law student in order to elicit a few laugh at all the histrionics . believe me that there be thousand of good film out there from the 1930s wait to be discover . try almost any film of the era and youre bound to be good off than with this silly dud . and and additionally and almost any other dunne film be good than this creaky old pile of . melodrama .