A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
Acting
Sullavan's luminous suffering; Stewart's raw earnestness.
Costume
Cicely's star-to-wife wardrobe arc slaps.
Director
Edward H. Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was James Stewart's first top-billed role; Universal fast-tracked him after Margaret Sullavan specifically requested him as her co-star.
The film's frank treatment of a wife's career ambitions was already dated by 1936—Hays Code enforcement was rapidly squeezing out such 'radical' domestic arrangements.
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