Details

Release year: 1931

Storyline

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Top credits

Directors

Mervyn LeRoy

Writers

Cast

Gloria Swanson — Nella Vago
Melvyn Douglas — Jim Fletcher
Alison Skipworth — Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni
Ferdinand Gottschalk — Rudig

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Did you know

• The Hays Office strongly objected to the film after it was completed and demanded several extensive cuts. The sequence most objected to was the love scene between "Nella Vago" and "Jim Fletcher," about which Hays Office staff member Lamar Trotti commented, "This scene was one of the most offensive, if not the most offensive-in my recollection." Other scenes trimmed showed the character of Nella "writhing on a day-bed in a particularly offensive manner," and her being unable to sleep because of the honeymooners in the next room.

• Coco Chanel herself designed Gloria Swanson's costumes.

• "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 25, 1937 with Melvyn Douglas reprising his film role.