...("Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise".) Helga's mother died, unmarried, during childbirth. Her uncle has raised her harshly. Determined she will marry, unlike her mother, he arranges a marriage with Jeb Mondstrum (Alan Hale). In the scene just after this one, later that same night, Mondstrum tries to sexually assault, and she runs away. Subsequently, she "falls and rises" more than once, while in love with just one man-- a theme which Josef von Sternberg would repeat the next year, 1932, with Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus. With Hilda Vaughn as Helga's aunt. (Not in this scene: C. Gable, very effective as Helga/Susan's true love). Based on the 1912 novel by David Graham Phillips, screenplay by Leon Gordon, Zelda Sears, Edith Fitzgerald and Wanda Tuchok. Cinematography by William H. Daniels, edited by Margaret Booth, produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard, for MGM, 1931, during the pre-Code Hollywood era.