Helga (Greta Garbo) has run away from her harsh uncle's household, and she has been taken in by a young engineer (Clark Gable). In this scene, he is about to leave town for a few days to bid on an important project. (It is not until a little later in the film, after this scene, that Helga becomes known as Susan Lenox, and she experiences more than one fall and rise.) 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.