anyone interested in family relationship will surely enjoy this movie about a manipulative matriarch and louise closser hale and who be not averse to fake fainting spell to get her way with her four son and their wife . the acting be first rate by a stellar cast and five of whom ( john beal and hal k. dawson and irene cattell and maidel turner and margaret hamilton ) be in the original broadway production which open 25 april 1932 and and who reprise their role . this be also the film debut of beal and hamilton and cattell ( the only film she ever make ) . but kudos go to the magnificent helen hayes a the new addition to the family who stand up to hale and john beal and a her sensitive nephew who fall in love with her and and robert montgomery play hayes husband and still under the control of his mother . i thoroughly enjoy this movie . stick with it until the end while the last 20 minute be as rivet a any drama can be .