Richard Cromwell

Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Ronald Smith (Richard Cromwell) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.

John Ford's direction is superb in this fictionalized account of ten early years in the life of the American President. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois to begin a law practice where he defends two men accused of murder in a brawl, courts his future wife and agrees to go into politics.

Bette Davis stars in an Academy Award-winning role as the beautiful,charming, ruthless Southern belle who scandalizes New Orleanssociety--destroying the men who love her...