***SPOILERS*** Things begin to fall apart for snobbish San Francisco socialite Joyce Ramsey, Bette Davis, within the first ten minutes of the movie when her teenage daughter Martha, Betty Lynn, introduces her working class boyfriend and future husband Phil Polanski,Brett King, to her. Polinski being of working class Polish stock not the blue blood type that Joyce and Martha are doesn't impress Joyce at all feeling that Phil is not worthy of marrying her high class, even though she doesn't think of herself as that, daughter Martha.
The second shoe to drop on Joyce's head is when her businessman husband back home from a hard day at the office David, Barry Sullivan, hits her with a double whammy telling her that he's sick and tired of her and want's a divorce by getting a new and improved as well as younger woman as his wife! We then get a number of flashbacks of the wild and turbulent as well as bittersweet life of the Ramseys that now some 20 years later lead to all this sorrow.
***SPOLIERS*** With David more then willing to settle for half of his money and properties to go to Joyce she plays hard-ball and demands far more then even her lawyer is willing to settle for from the by now confused, in his wife's unreasonable demands, David. Joyce went as far to hire a private detective who sneaks or poked his head into his hotel room, on a fire escape, and photographed David getting a friendly kiss from his secretary Eileen Benson, Frances Dee, and using it as blackmail material against David. That's to get her way or destroy his reputation as a God fearing as well as upstanding family man! It's later on a Caribbean cruse that she took to chill off that Joyce got involved with this English and married, in what she didn't known at the time, gigolo Sir Anthony Tunliffe, John Sutton, and realized that she not David was the one who's the cheater of the couple.
Touching final with Jocce rushing back to San Francisco for her to attend her daughter Martha's wedding to lowly educated-he didn't attend collage- commoner and Polish/American Phil Polanski and then dropping to her hands and knees begging for David to take her back despite all the hurt that she caused him. David for his part is ready to take her back but tells Joyce to take a few days to cool off before he makes his decision and then, by finally kissing and making up, the two can start all over again.
The second shoe to drop on Joyce's head is when her businessman husband back home from a hard day at the office David, Barry Sullivan, hits her with a double whammy telling her that he's sick and tired of her and want's a divorce by getting a new and improved as well as younger woman as his wife! We then get a number of flashbacks of the wild and turbulent as well as bittersweet life of the Ramseys that now some 20 years later lead to all this sorrow.
***SPOLIERS*** With David more then willing to settle for half of his money and properties to go to Joyce she plays hard-ball and demands far more then even her lawyer is willing to settle for from the by now confused, in his wife's unreasonable demands, David. Joyce went as far to hire a private detective who sneaks or poked his head into his hotel room, on a fire escape, and photographed David getting a friendly kiss from his secretary Eileen Benson, Frances Dee, and using it as blackmail material against David. That's to get her way or destroy his reputation as a God fearing as well as upstanding family man! It's later on a Caribbean cruse that she took to chill off that Joyce got involved with this English and married, in what she didn't known at the time, gigolo Sir Anthony Tunliffe, John Sutton, and realized that she not David was the one who's the cheater of the couple.
Touching final with Jocce rushing back to San Francisco for her to attend her daughter Martha's wedding to lowly educated-he didn't attend collage- commoner and Polish/American Phil Polanski and then dropping to her hands and knees begging for David to take her back despite all the hurt that she caused him. David for his part is ready to take her back but tells Joyce to take a few days to cool off before he makes his decision and then, by finally kissing and making up, the two can start all over again.