She Made Her Bed is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by James M. Cain , Casey Robinson and Frank R. Adams . The film stars Richard Arlen , Sally Eilers , Robert Armstrong , Grace Bradley , Roscoe Ates and Charley Grapewin . It was released on March 9, 1934, by Paramount Pictures and was described at the time as a "social drama" film in which Arlen plays a "heroic villain."
8-458: Philandering Duke Gordon and his wife Lura run a roadside coffee shop and auto park in rural Southern California. Frustrated over her husband's most recent affair, Lura strikes up a romantically-tinged friendship with snake-oil salesman Wild Bill Smith, but this sours after Bill and Duke decide to purchase a Sumatran tiger as a special attraction for the Gordons' roadside establishment. Lura discovers she
16-549: A fire breaks out in the house. Lura is able to rescue her child, and the two of them join Bill on the road. Photoplay Magazine called She Made Her Bed "(a) gay merry-go-'round that makes for good entertainment." The film played on a double bill with Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen in some theaters during its initial release. This 1930s comedy film–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Miss Fane%27s Baby Is Stolen Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
24-548: Is a 1934 pre-Code American comedy-drama film, starring Dorothea Wieck , Alice Brady , and Baby LeRoy , written by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Storm from a novel and story by Rupert Hughes , and directed by Alexander Hall . The events depicted in the film were allegedly based on the Lindbergh kidnapping . Madeline Fane is a busy and successful actress who is fiercely devoted to her two-year-old son. One day, little Michael disappears from his crib. Miss Fane avoids speaking to
32-400: Is pregnant—with Duke's baby—and attempts to repair things with her husband while asking Bill to leave. A year later, both Bill and Eve (one of Duke's old flames) have come back to town, causing renewed friction. Meanwhile, the tiger escapes its enclosure. After coming face to face with the great cat in her kitchen, Lura hides her baby in the ice-box. Duke is attacked and killed by the tiger and
40-547: Is subdued but very true. Her expression of joy at the return of Michael is apt to bring tears to the eyes of the most hardened cinema-goer..." Time magazine called it "a topical film which draws tears with out half trying" in a dual review with I Am Suzanne! (1933), and noted the "expert work" of cast members Brady and Jack La Rue . Martin Dickstein allowed that the film "provides Miss Wieck with better screen material than did Cradle Song " but that it "drags perceptively in
48-415: The police at first, then calls upon both law enforcement and her legions of fans for help. One of them, impoverished Molly Prentiss who is also a single mother and who receives a signed photo of her idol at the beginning of the film after watching Fane finish a take with her leading man, comes to the rescue. This is one of only a handful of English-language roles for Swiss-German actress Dorothea Wieck , who
56-488: Was assigned to the project after Carole Lombard declined the role. In the opening 'film-within-a-film' sequence, many of the film's crew members can be seen playing crew members of Miss Fane's film, including director Alexander Hall and cinematographer Alfred Gilks . Screenwriter Adela Rogers St. Johns had covered the Lindbergh case, which was still a fresh news item when Miss Fane's Baby Is Missing went into production, and
64-517: Was not yet resolved when the film was released. Unlike the real case, Michael Fane is recovered safely and unharmed, in compliance with the Hays Office . Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen opened to positive reviews. Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times enthusiastically called the film "extraordinarily effective," and singled out for praise its leading lady: "Miss Wieck's interpretation of mental agony
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