She came from the wrong side of the track. That remark described Jennifer Jones as Ruby Gentry in this 1952 mediocre film.
The doctor part could have been better developed. How convenient for Josephine Hutchinson, as Karl Malden's wife, to be ailing for 8 1/2 years and suddenly go after being injected and the good doctor telling Malden that she is dying and will be gone in 2 weeks or so. Her demise allows for Malden to quickly gobble up young Ruby who has stayed with the family.
Ruby's got a brother whose religious fervor has drawn him to insanity and this craziness will bring tragedy to Rudy and her real lover, Charlton Heston, in the end. There is a love/hate relationship between the two and during the hate part, Ruby marries the Malden character.
This is real soap opera nonsense. Yes, we understand social status differences and a snobby town. Jennifer Jones has a twang in that southern accent, but notice that when she marries Malden, she sounds like a northerner. Note how Heston takes her around. He did it in the same way to Anne Baxter, 4 years later in the superb "The Ten Commandments."
The doctor part could have been better developed. How convenient for Josephine Hutchinson, as Karl Malden's wife, to be ailing for 8 1/2 years and suddenly go after being injected and the good doctor telling Malden that she is dying and will be gone in 2 weeks or so. Her demise allows for Malden to quickly gobble up young Ruby who has stayed with the family.
Ruby's got a brother whose religious fervor has drawn him to insanity and this craziness will bring tragedy to Rudy and her real lover, Charlton Heston, in the end. There is a love/hate relationship between the two and during the hate part, Ruby marries the Malden character.
This is real soap opera nonsense. Yes, we understand social status differences and a snobby town. Jennifer Jones has a twang in that southern accent, but notice that when she marries Malden, she sounds like a northerner. Note how Heston takes her around. He did it in the same way to Anne Baxter, 4 years later in the superb "The Ten Commandments."