i can only guess that this movie be an experiment that misfire . year earlier and it would have be move image accompany by music . later and it would have be sound add to silents . eventually it would have be technicolor and cinemascope or imax . this movie must have be a misguided attempt to introduce a new element to the talk picture . during all the emotional scene and the character stop in mid dialogue and their inner thought be narrate while they gaze off into the distance or appeal to the camera . this interruption be painful at it very least . imagine these top tier actor try to look busy while the narration drone on . painful . i have no idea who come up with this gimmick and but it be the only time i ever saw it use and for good reason . in every scene the actor be force to roll their eye and wring their hand and or overact to such a degree and i actually wonder if this be really a comedy . the story be a hopeless soap opera that take place over a couple of generation . norma shearer and disappoint in love and search for a reason to live . she have a friend and play by ralph morgan and who worship her but she take him for grant . she be attract to a doctor and play by clark gable and but he be self absorbed and isn not interested in her . she settle for a weakling that need her desperately . she marry him only to find that there be insanity in his family and she can never have a child with him . along come the doctor who selfishly pop a bun in her oven and only to find out later that he love her after all . the child build confidence in her husband who become a success and but she realize that it really clark she love after all . confuse yet . forget the rest and just watch a couple of episode of a the world turn and it will all become clear . if your be ever force to watch this movie and hold out for the final scene . the gyration of the actor put harold lloyd to shame . it be not to be miss .