Born to Be Bad
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Movie Reviews of Born to Be Bad
Movie Review: GREAT CLASSIC MOVIE!!
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS GREAT CLASSIC 1934 MOVIE STARRING LORETTA YOUNG AND CARY GRANT IS ABOUT AN EVIL UNWED MOTHER.IT'S A MUST SEE!!Movie Review: Interesting pre-code film
Summary: 4 Stars
I quite enjoyed this film - it's an interesting pre-code that was released about 6 weeks before enforcement of the production code. Loretta Young's acting is pretty good but Cary Grant is kind of dull - definitely not his best role. Some of the pre-code plot elements in this film include Loretta Young's unspecified "profession" and lifestyle that involves men and clothes and some of the rather risque shots of Loretta in her underwear. I think the release of this pre-code movie, which was previously unavailable, is to be applauded.Movie Review: Born to be Bad
Summary: 4 Stars
Born to be Bad concerns a married couple who after several years, find that they cannot have children. Enter Loretta Young, a young, beautiful, unmarried, unprincipled woman who has a child. She agrees to the adoption. Then when she later visits her in Cary's home, she decides she would like to replace his wife. This is where the plot thickens. I was a bit disappointed in Cary Grant. His behavior early in the film didn't prepare me for his very strong reactions exhibited later.Movie Review: Loretta Young in brittle Pre-Code drama
Summary: 3 Stars
Effective Pre-Code drama starring Loretta Young in a role light years away from her virtuous characters in films like "The Bishop's Wife" and "The Farmer's Daughter".
BORN TO BE BAD stars Cary Grant and Marion Burns as married couple Malcolm and Alyce Trevor, whose lives are almost destroyed by scheming single mother Letty Strong (Loretta Young), when her son is injured by one of the milk trucks owned by the Trevors' large dairy company. Taking Malcolm all the way to the bank - literally - Letty's blackmail and bitchery eventually leads to her predictable ruin...
Marion Burns gamely plays Grant's rather passive and uninteresting wife (she was much more enjoyable in Monogram's "Sensation Hunters" which is available via Alpha Video); BORN TO BE BAD is mainly notable for the pairing of Grant and Young, thirteen years before their most celebrated co-starring vehicle, "The Bishop's Wife".
Co-starring Jackie Kelk and Henry Travers, BORN TO BE BAD will interest Cary Grant completists and Pre-Code fans; the performance of Loretta Young should make it a worthwhile title for casual viewers as well. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
Movie Review: neat pre-code melodrama
Summary: 3 Stars
"Born to be Bad", made by Twentieth Century Pictures before they merged with Fox, is a fast moving pre-code melodrama possibly made as Daryl F. Zanuck's response to Warner's "Baby Face" and MGM's "Red Headed Woman". The interest in the film today is that Loretta Young plays against type as a promiscuous dame with an illegitimate son whom she raises to defy any sort of authority. Young is on record as loathing the film, not the least for the morals, or lack of, which the film depicts. However, that judgement ignores that here is the sexy radiant Young playing a tough broad very convincingly. A wooden Cary Grant plays opposite her.
The print is OK and there are no extras. The DVD is quite expensive and only worth seeing for Young.
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