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I've seen many movies about parents and children struggling with separation. None broke my heart quite like this one. It starts out pleasant - a story of little consequence. The central conflict emerges slowly and subtly. When the full measure of its buried implications emerges, Barbara Stanwyck's performance comes into focus as a beautiful acting achievement of both the 1930s and her career.

An Academy Award–nominated Barbara Stanwyck delivers a tour de force of virtuoso heartbreak in this classic weepy, one of the most unforgettable portrayals of maternal love ever put on-screen. She is by turns brassy and touchingly tender as the eponymous good-time girl from the wrong side of the tracks who marries into high society—but must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to give her daughter the life she never had. The second and most famous screen adaptation of Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel is the gold standard of the classic Hollywood tearjerker, a precision-crafted melodrama of overwhelming emotional power.