( there be spoiler ) heart wrenchingly effective 1930 tear jerker that grab you right from the start and never let go until the end credit . with you hop some way that for once and no matter how corny and unbelievable and that there will be a hollywood style happy end . 25 year old barbara stanwyck play the young librarian lulu smith who just have enough of the dull and boring country life that she be lead and decide to take her life saving and $ 1 and 200 . 00 and and go on a caribbean cruise . meeting this middle age man bob grover and adolphe menjou and when he get his cabin room mix up with hers lulu end up spend her vacation time in havana with bob who together paint the town red . back in the state the two fall madly in love with each other but when it come to tie the knot bob have a confession to make to lulu . the fact be that he not only married but involve in the state politics where leave his cripple and love wife helen and dorothy peterson and would destroy his political career . in one of the most amazing and explosive scene involve a breakup of a couple lulu practically throw bob out of her apartment a he and know that he the guilty party and pleads for forgiveness tell an hurt and outrage lulu that his door will always be open to her . time march on a bob become the state elect attorney general . lulu alone and almost homeless have bob baby and roberta and whom she at first refuse to see in the maternity ward because the child remind her of him . still hold a flame for lulu bob track her down and find out that she alone and live with her and his three year old daughter roberta . he then continue his secret and illicit affair with her where at the same time put on a false face and to the public and that he a happily married man . the bottom fall out of both bob and lulu secret relationship when the sleaze ball editor of that yellow rag the record al holland and ralph bellamy and spots little roberta with lulu . bob who political career and for some reason or another and holland determine to destroy and smell and with the rat like instinct that he have and a big and provocative story at bob grover expense . be tell by lulu and whom the creep secretly have the hots for and that she the governess of roberta who bob and helen adopt daughter holland go back to his office to get the truth about just who little reborta be . this have her real mother lulu and who get a job at the paper a it lovelorn communist and go check out the mother background which just happen to be herself . in the end the you know what hit the fan with bob and even though he die from an incurable and unnamed illness and get elect governor of the state . holland whom lulu married and in order to keep the slime ball from expose her and her and bob 19 year old daughter roberta and get the official hospital record that his wife lulu be both roberta mother and that bob be her dad . even more explosive roberta be the result of an illicit affair between the two . instead of act like a normal and feeling human be and keep it all quite holland run out a if his pant be on fire to get the big story to hit the street and via his paper and that morning . instead the lowlife creep get blast by his now totally hysterical and from him beat her up and about to expose roberta and wife lulu . really touch final with a die governor bob grover pardon his lover and mother of his daughter lulu from a life sentence and for gun down al holland and and leave half of his estate in her name . lulu now old and with her decide to keep the truth from roberta and as well a the widowed mrs. grover and to herself and alone in the world do whats best for everyone . not want to destroy bob reputation and by him be a man who cheat on his wife and lulu both honorably and unselfishly tear up bob hand write last will and testament and throw it in a city garbage can a he movie end . schmaltzy yet powerful film about a love that wasn not mean to be . in the end it show those involve in it and lulu and bob and that the truth as painful a it would be and like castor or cod liver oil and would have be the best medicine to cure it . the truth in the end would have save both their life and and ironically even bob wife helen and from the destruction that be to later engulf them by keep it a secret .