The Crash (1932) + Registered Nurse (1934)

Ruth Chatterton and Bebe Daniels, two of the greatest leading ladies of the Pre-Code era, are the main attraction in this riches to rags "working woman" double bill.


The Crash During the late 1920s attractive Linda Gault flirts with important men to get stock market tips for her financier husband Geoffrey. In spite of the fact that Linda has just broken off her affair with banker John Fair, Geoffrey asks her to question him once more that evening at dinner. Reluctantly, she does, but Fair is suspicious and refuses to answer. To cover her failure, Linda lies to Geoffrey and pretends that Fair told her the market was going up. When the market crashes, Geoffrey loses his money. Because she is afraid to live in poverty as she did when she was a child, Linda runs away to Bermuda with a letter of credit. While waiting for Geoffrey to recover his wealth, she meets Ronnie Sanderson, an Australian sheep rancher. He falls in love with her and begs her to return to New York, get a divorce and marry him. At first she hesitates, thinking Australia will be dull, but when she learns that Geoffrey has lost everything, she agrees. Linda discovers that her maid, Celeste, has stolen her pearl necklace and sold it to cover her boyfriend's losses on the market. Now Linda has no money either, so she takes a job selling gowns in order to earn money for her divorce. Ronnie follows her from Bermuda and offers to pay all her expenses himself if she will leave with him that evening. She agrees, but on the way to the boat, stops to say goodbye to Geoffrey. When she realizes that he really loves her and that he needs her, she decides to stay with him

Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Barbara Leonard, Paul Cavanagh, Henry Kolker, Hardie Albright, Ivan F. Simpson, Edith Kingdon, Herman Bing, A.S. 'Pop' Byron, Leonard Carey, Elspeth Dudgeon, Harold Entwistle, Virginia Hammond, Allan Lane, Richard Tucker, Helen Vinson






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Registered Nurse Sylvia Benton is married to socially prominent but dissolute Jim Benton. On the way home from a country club dance, Sylvia announces to Jim that she is going to leave him. He warns her that she will never get any money out of him, but she responds that she will go back to nursing. During their quarrel, the car crashes and Jim is badly injured. Sylvia leaves Connecticut and obtains a job at a New York hospital. She is a good nurse and well-liked by the other nurses, doctors and patients. She calms wrestling manager Frankie Sylvestrie when he demands to be released from the hospital despite his broken leg, and sympathizes with nurse Schloss, who is in love with a policeman. Both flirtatious Dr. Greg Connolly and responsible Dr. Hedwig are in love with Sylvia. Hedwig even asks her to marry him, but she turns down all offers with no explanation. Although she is normally the calmest of nurses, she goes to pieces one day when Hedwig operates on a psychopathic woman to restore her sanity. When Greg vows his love to Sylvia, telling her that he has stopped seeing all other women, she admits that she is married and cannot get a divorce because her husband is violently insane from injuries sustained during the automobile accident. Hedwig offers to help her, but Sylvia believes that nothing can be done. When Pat, Schloss's policeman fiance, is killed before they can be married, Greg convinces Sylvia that they should grab happiness while they can because they never know when life will end. Then Jim appears at the hospital during a rare sane period. Although he does not realize that Sylvia is working there, he has heard that Hedwig may be able to operate and help him. When Hedwig realizes that he is Sylvia's husband, he tells her that she must decide if Jim should have the operation. She finally agrees, but when her patient Sylvestrie hears the story, he visits Jim before his surgery and, pretending not to know that Jim is Sylvia's husband, relates her story, suggesting that the right thing for the husband to do would be to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Greg tells Sylvia that even if Jim recovers, they should continue their affair, an idea that repulses her. When Jim jumps from the hospital window, Sylvia quits her job. She says good-bye to Hedwig, who proposes to her when he learns that she is not marrying Greg. She accepts and they continue to work together

Director: Robert Florey
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Irene Franklin, Sidney Toler, Gordon Westcott, Minna Gombell, Beulah Bondi, Vince Barnett, Phillip Reed, Mayo Methot, Renee Whitney, Virginia Sale, Ronnie Cosby, Edward Gargan, George Humbert, Paul Power, Johnny Arthur, Louise Beavers, Lester Dorr, Jay Eaton, Harry Ekezian, Bill Elliott, Betty Jane Graham, Tor Johnson, Edward Keane, Milton Kibbee, Mary MacLaren, Kitty McHugh, Edmund Mortimer






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