D: William A. Wellman. Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Robert Barrat, Ruth Donnelly, Marjorie Gateson. Wildly melodramatic tale following the sorrows of carnival performer Chatterton, who gets mixed up with one worthless man after another. Then she meets nice-guy Brent, but can their happiness last? Redeemed by the acting and Wellman's typically pungent touches.

D: John Cromwell. Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Bruce Cabot, Edna May Oliver, Conrad Nagel, Sam Hardy, Mitchell Lewis. Feministsocial workerprison reformer Dunne has an affair with heel Cabot, eventually finds love with charismatic, controversial judge Huston. Leads are fine in this cut-down adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel; more episodic than any movie has a right to be.

D: King Vidor. Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Josephine Hutchinson. Turgid, meandering account of easy-virtue Southerner Jones marrying wealthy Malden to spite Heston, the man she loves.

D: Ian Dalrymple. Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton, Mary Clare. Well-appointed account of rogue Bogarde (in starring debut) involved with lovely damsels frequenting the racetracks; set in 19th-century England. Film bogs down into soaper of gloomy married life, marring initial zest.

D: Vincent Sherman. Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Corby. Remake of CRAIG'S WIFE is well cast, with Crawford in title role of perfectionist wife who'll stop at nothing to have her house and life run as she wishes.

D: Vincent Sherman. Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary DeCamp, John Ridgely, Robert Arthur, Wanda Hendrix. Proper married doctor Smith falls for kicked-around singer Sheridan, leading to plenty of complications. Entertaining, albeit predictable, drama.