Of Human Bondage (1934 film)

Of Human Bondage is a 1934 American PreCode drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. The film was remade in 1946 and again in 1964.

Philip falls passionately in love with vulgar tearoom waitress Mildred Rogers, even though she is disdainful of his clubfoot and his obvious interest in her. Although he is attracted to the anemic and palefaced woman, she is manipulative and cruel toward him when he asks her out. Her constant response to his romantic invitations is I dont mind, an expression so uninterested that it infuriates him which only causes her to use it all the more. His daydreams about her her image appears over an illustration in his medical school anatomy textbook, and a skeleton in the classroom is transformed into Mildred cause him to be distracted from his studies, and he fails his medical examinations.When Philip proposes to her, Mildred declines, telling him she will be marrying a loutish salesman Emil Miller instead. The selfcentered Mildred vindictively berates Philip with nasty insults for becoming romantically interested in her. ........

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