Movie #480 "Born to be Bad" has Loretta Young and Cary Grant, two of my favorite actors, together in "Bishop's Wife" which I really enjoyed. Then, I discovered this title with the two of them and decided to watch it. It was only about 75 minutes long, but I guess I was so tired from washing windows all day that I fell asleep through 20 minutes of it, so I had to do one of those "see the end and go back to the middle" with this. I'm glad I did. Loretta Young plays a rather cheap (esp. for 1934) woman who sleeps around to have enough money to raise the kid she had when she was 15. Enter Cary Grant who accidentally runs into the kid with his car. He sees it as a chance to do some good for the kid and his mom (whom he falls in love with) and she sees it as a chance to get a hold of money for the rest of her life. I think the script could have spent more time on him falling in love with her and her with him --- but because they are such good actors, they were able to pull it off, somewhat. I liked it.
I gave it 3 stars out of 5.
Born to Be Bad
(1934) NR
Letty (Loretta Young) is a young mother who has her son taken away from her after she's determined an unfit mother. Malcolm Trevor (Cary Grant) and his wife Alice (Marion Burns) agree to take over guardianship of the boy, hoping to provide him with a stable home. Yearning to get her child back, Letty decides to seduce Malcolm -- a task that proves more difficult than she had hoped.
Genre: Classic Movies, Romantic Movies, Classic Romantic Movies
This movie is: Sentimental, Romantic
Availability: Streaming and DVD
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