this be not a great movie but it a very good one . it racial view be somewhat of it time but it be also very forward look . little need be say of the remake other than that the original be superior in every way . most interesting and though and be that the daughter pass for white be play here by a black actress and whereas in the version almost three decade later the character be take by a caucasian . in many way and the truly heartbreaking story of louise beaver character love for her conflicted daughter be like something from a race picture . it have a feel of authenticity . ms. beaver look very pretty and though she be heavy . it a shame that in her big scene and the camera be focus on claudette colbert or rochelle hudson the white mother and daughter in the considerably less interesting intertwining plot . colbert look good and though this be a little before she have hit on her trademark look with bang . the scene in which beaver massage her foot seem a little risqué and intentionally or otherwise . my mother and who be a child when this come out and use to talk about see this several time and cry each time . and speaking of child and the opening scene in which the daughter be an ostensibly adorable child and colbert addressee her comment about her want her quack quack and it hard not to think of the scene in midnight and a late and different but far good movie and in which colbert speaks on the phone to her nonexistent little daughter illness and with john barrymore speaking in falsetto about a hangover at the other end . frerdi washington and a beaver daughter who be pass for white and be lovely . she have a beautiful mezzo voice and act this melodrama a if it be oneill . colbert daughter crush on warren william seem uninteresting and possibly i have not read and never will read the original that aspect of the plot be trim or censor .