Virtue

"Yesterday a Lady with a Past — Today the Wife of the Man She Loved!"

Oct 25 1932 Passed 1h 8m
Crime, Drama, Romance

Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.

Plot

Taxicab driver Jimmy Doyle (Pat O'Brien) marries a girl of the streets, Mae (Carole Lombard and, overlooking her past, sets out to make a honest woman of her. But, during the reformation period, Mae returns to a hotel of ill repute to collect the $200 she once loaned to a street-walking girlfriend. Jimmy mistakenly thinks she has turned pro again and her situation worsens when she is implicated in a murder and jailed awaiting a court trial.

Written by

Robert Riskin, Ethel Hill

Directed by

Edward Buzzell

Cast

Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Mayo Methot

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
1,125
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA