although she be past be a teenager when the original silent version of the road to ruin ( 1928 ) be make and beautiful helen foster ( a ann dixon ) be still an innocent young thing . after hang out with bad girl nell oday ( a eve monroe ) and ms. foster begin to smoke and drink and and have sex nothing too unusual and when you consider the character routinely be play by the like of bette davis and greta garbo and and mae west . but and thing be bad for foster while she hasn not an abortionist worth his salt . filmmaker dorothy davenport and aka the widow of wallace reid and might have consider cast the beloved couple real life son wally jr. in the film . it might have be exploitive and but that and obviously and be too late a consideration . despite the material and glen bole ( a tommy ) and bobby quirk ( a ed ) and and their gal be a swell bunch to follow before degradation take it toll . the road to ruin ( 3/21/34 ) dorothy davenport ~ helen foster and glen bole and nell oday .