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Bette Davis marries Errol Flynn and moves to San Francisco, but their happy marriage begins to disintegrate when he can’t support the couple and turns to drinking. It may be the writing more than the performances, but there’s not much chemistry between Flynn and Davis (who hated each other in real life). The film sticks primarily with Davis’ character, short-changing the subplots revolving around Davis’ sisters (Anita Louise and and Jane Bryan). The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is depicted from inside Davis’ apartment — pretty neat practical effects for the time, though living on the top floor, she’d surely have been killed. Davis and Flynn would be paired one more time, and more successfully, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex a year later. With Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi, and Alan Hale. Directed by Anatole Litvak.