Shopworn was one of those films that was old fashioned immediately upon release. I doubt we'll see a remake of it. If it wasn't for Barbara Stanwyck no one would give it any notice.
Stanwyck plays a poor but honest hash house waitress who attracts the attention of medical student Regis Toomey. Toomey is from proper society and he's tied rather neatly to mother Clara Blandick's apron strings.
Blandick might well have been the inspiration for Jane Wyman's character in Falcon Crest, a troublesome meddler in people's lives who does it because she can. Nobody's cutting mom's apron strings on her darling boy.
Really I'd have taken the money and run and had a clean conscience. I sure would have not wasted any more time on mama's boy Toomey. But Stanwyck doesn't and you have the rest of a soggy story.
She was a great actress Barbara Stanwyck to make this drivel sound somewhat plausible. Zasu Pitts is strangely subdued as Stanwyck's best friend. Why the director kept her in check is a mystery, Pitts's eye fluttering antics might have added something desperately needed for this film.
For Barbara Stanwyck fans only.
Stanwyck plays a poor but honest hash house waitress who attracts the attention of medical student Regis Toomey. Toomey is from proper society and he's tied rather neatly to mother Clara Blandick's apron strings.
Blandick might well have been the inspiration for Jane Wyman's character in Falcon Crest, a troublesome meddler in people's lives who does it because she can. Nobody's cutting mom's apron strings on her darling boy.
Really I'd have taken the money and run and had a clean conscience. I sure would have not wasted any more time on mama's boy Toomey. But Stanwyck doesn't and you have the rest of a soggy story.
She was a great actress Barbara Stanwyck to make this drivel sound somewhat plausible. Zasu Pitts is strangely subdued as Stanwyck's best friend. Why the director kept her in check is a mystery, Pitts's eye fluttering antics might have added something desperately needed for this film.
For Barbara Stanwyck fans only.