SHOPWORN (1932) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Nick Grinde
Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pittiș,
Lucien Littlefield, Clara Blandick, Oscar Apfel
Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman whose old man gets killed in a dynamite accident but before he goes he tells her she's on her own now and she's got to be tough so she moves to the city and starts waitressing in a hash joint where she meets a young med student and they hit it off and decide to get married but his domineering mother tricks them and arranges to have her sent to a reformatory where she does her time scrubbing floors and when she gets out she becomes a chorus girl and then a famous actress and she meets up with the med student again and he's a surgeon now but she gives him the brush because she thinks he dumped her when it was really his evil old lady who's still around telling him what to do and then some stuff happens involving a gun and the battle-ax has a change of heart and true love and real romance triumph after all fade out the end. Barbara Stanwyck. What a dame.
