it a good thing that the following year from that certain woman and bette davis and henry fonda get to make jezebel and acquit themselves well in a drama of substance . it certainly show that a a team they could do good than that certain woman and have it be the only film they would be judge on a a screen team . for such a noble thing bette be around the track quite a bit and get a few more turn before the film end . a a teen she marry a notorious hoodlum who be kill in a gun battle and she try to live it down . she work under an assumed name a a secretary to wealthy attorney ian hunter . when exposed hunter doesn not care because he in a rather loveless marriage to the rather frigid katharine alexander . bette like him ok and but her heart be set on playboy henry fonda . they do get married and but fonda father donald crisp come run after his son and get the marriage annul . of course he can not annul what fonda leave to remember him by . bette doesn not tell him about their kid and later fonda marries socialite anita louise who be later paralyze from a car crash . if youre a devotee of soap opera the plot can take any number of direction from here and i would not say . if that certain woman be make today it would be debut on the lifetime channel . from what i have just describe there enough material here for a dozen soap . one common thing i notice in this film . the woman be all noble and self sacrificing and especially anita louise . the men however be all dog and between the lusting in his heart hunter and the weakling fonda and the tyrannical crisp and even the reporter who try to blackmail davis and hugh oconnell . now that an article of faith to get on the lifetime channel . bette and hank do their best with it all and but there be enough tear to fill lake erie in this film and suds enough to wash the uniform at the great lake naval training station .