no other woman start out a an interesting drama of a young woman and man in a steel town in love but with different idea and different level of intellect but startlingly turn midpoint into the most sexist film of the 1930 and with a jaw drop climax match only by an equally outrageous finale . irene dunne be a lovely sensitive young woman in a steel town in love with the somewhat likable but coarse charles bickford . irene dream of escape this dead end life but bickford have no dream other than be a big shot at the plant . irene find a soul mate in the somewhat young eric linden and who study and experiment with formula on the side which bickford ridicule . dunne and bickford marry but irene hasn not quite give up on her dream and take in boarder and penny pinching for the day they can move away . when linden tell her of his discovery of a permanent dye she be thrill that this may be their chance and want to invest in it . unfortunately and bickford have have an apparent bad day at the plant and come home in an angry mood and they have a big fight ( apparently their first ) and bickford storm out to get good and drunk . repentful the next day and he listen again to irene idea and become enthusiastic when he see eric formula first hand and they start a business that bring them all fortune within a few year . eventually the couple have a son but bickford business venture keep him away from home more often than not . while in new york and he fall into the lure of predatory gwili andre and they have a long running affair which climax in andre eventually demand they end it or he leave irene to marry her . after initial resistance and bickford agrees but irene and even after be publicly ridicule ( everyone know about the affair it seem ) refuse to grant him a divorce because she love him to much to let him go . thing really start to get nasty when bickford then sue her for divorce and allege adultery on her part and drag her through the mud with pay off witness who claim knowledge about irene affair . masochistic irene however refuse to bring out her knowledge about his affair into the proceeding since she be fight the divorce . bickford lawyer paint her a a grasping and money love woman and even her early saving be use against her a proof of her love of money ( quite oblivious to the fact that this money be the mean to build bickford fortune . ) when bickford lawyer announces bickford be seek full custody of their son and startle irene erratically admit to the affair and then in hysteria proclaims their son be not bickford and no doubt in a desperate attempt to keep the child . bickford finally be break by his own selfishness and announces to the judge his story have all be a lie . bickford be sentence to a year in jail and their business collapse into bankruptcy over the scandal . once release and bickford go back to work a a steel miller and be startle to find an all forgiving irene wait to take him back a be his old friend and include linden whom he have obviously also drive into bankruptcy . this be the ugly love story i have ever see in a film . base on a 1916 play and this jaw drop tale of a woman who love no matter what be just pathetic and it horrible to see the lovely irene dunne in such a degrading role . this movie be ridiculous beyond belief . how be irene able to save over $ 6 and 000 in a few year from her low work class husband salary in the 1920 even with take in boarder . how be the crude and unambitious and and unschooled bickford able to have the brain to get a major corporation off the ground . bickford get only a year for such blatant premeditate perjury . and frankly give his selfish core and i couldn not help but think his ultimate confession be not cause by shame over what he have do to his wife but the possibility that his son would not be recognize a his own . the only good thing i can think of say about this film be the atmosphere in the early scene be excellent and fully capture the hot and steamy ambiance in a steel town and and irene look a vision in the glamorous fashion during the rich year . see this beautiful and intelligent woman degrade with this story be too much for me but frankly i be just a disgusted with her character all forgiving attitude . bickford give a tired and rather over the top performance and it no surprise he wasn not use very often a a lead man . watch this unpleasant travesty would make even the most devoted film archivist wish this one be among the lose film .