Midnight Mary

Starring Loretta Young and directed by William Wellman, this gangster melodrama unfolds as a woman on trial for her life thinks back over her life--her tough upbringing and home in the slums and the men who put her in her present state of affairs. One bad break leads to another, and by the time she reaches adulthood Mary is mixed up with a gang of crooked gamblers. For the sake of Tom, a well-connected socialite who loves her unquestioningly, Mary tries to go straight, but her past catches up with her.