This is a typical Irene Dunne film. Like no one else, she had the ability to move hearts and set them crying, if not in tears, then at least the more emotionally. Her performances are always warm and tender and very deep in sincerity. This story was filmed several times, but Irene Dunne makes the first version, which outshines the others, even if they are more up to date. She falls in love with a married man, excellently played also here by John Bole, and it's difficult to imagine anyone doing the part better than he. He is Jewish and married properly with children, it's impossible for him to step out of the frame of impeccability, but it is as impossible for him to do without her as it is for her to live without him. He is a banker, so he makes the arrangement of having her available whenever in an apartment of her own, as a mistress always at hand. She agreed voluntarily to this, although she did have an option, a very regular childhood friend and well to do having proposed to her, but still she chose a very precarious Back Street existence, which would last for the rest of both lives. The film is heart-warmingly beautiful, you cannot resist it, and she would make many more roles like this, each one a great lesson of humanity.
Review of Back Street
