wealthy businessman daughter and who a a young girl catch rheumatic fever and now suffers from a shortness of breath and discover her marriage to a charm neer do well be arrange by daddy ( whom she affectionately refer to a darling ) while bad than that and she may in fact have only a few week leave to live and leave her husband free to marry her connive romantic rival . pure bunk . paul osborn screenplay ( via jerome weidman thin story ) trot out the redundant flashback in the second half instead of proceed ahead with the plot and which submerge the already soapy scenario in grim talk . why go backwards when we can figure out what happen for ourselves . this be a woman weeper with no faith in it target audience and so simplistic be the set up . dorothy mcguire and swathe in fur for most of the picture and isn not a canny and clever heroine at all while when she upset and she turn inward and stony . upon realize her marriage be basically a sham and she shrink away from her husband like the consummate virgin ( well and that a possibility and she and van johnson sleep in separate bed after all . ) . ruth roman have the film best moment a a society shark with her trap set for van and but what exactly do these woman see in him . johnson can be charm when it require and but put him in a melodramatic setting and he go stony and too . mgm production value only so so and however director gottfried reinhardt try add some visual flavor to the flashback segue and he attempt a lively pace for the movie initial half hour . from .