bette davis be positively magnificent in this film and and it win her a well deserved second oscar a best actress . she play a very spoiled and uncompromising southern belle name julie in 1850 new orleans and who intend to marry young beau henry fonda but mercilessly try his patience while she be selfishly late for her own party and and despite all self respect folk protest and rebelliously don a glowing red gown at a grand ball at a time when it forbid for any unmarried woman to wear anything other than white . after properly humiliate herself and fiancé fonda at the ball and her man decide he can take no more of her manipulation tactic and leave her . julie come to regret some of her way and be confident that her intend will come back to her . one year later and when a violent outbreak of yellow fever plague the south for the first time in 22 year and fonda return home again while but it will be an unpleasant shock for the headstrong and vengeful davis . william wyler direct this lavish melodrama quite well and and all the actor be well select ( little rascal fan will also have fun spot young stymie beard ) . the great scene in the movie have get to be the humiliate olympus ball sequence and with davis begin to have second thought when she be ostracize by hundred of aghast eye and leer at her and fonda a they waltz around an abandon dance floor while she wear that controversial dress . she beg her fiancé to take her out of there and but he make her endure every second of what she so defiantly want . bette davis be perfect and ooze star power . her performance make you wonder how she would have fare in go with the wind and the classic film for which this film be say to be a warm up .