The Silver Cord

(1933)

Drama

Cast: Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews, Eric Linden, Irene Dunne and Frances Dee

The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with Laura Hope Crews recreating her stage role as a widowed women a bit too in love with her sons. Ms. Crews plays the outwardly selfless mother of Joel McCrea and Eric Linden; Irene Dunne and Frances Dee play the younger women in the lives of the two sons. Irene, an established physician, is quick to see that Ms. Crews' supposed loving relationship with her sons is an obsessive power trip, and that Mother is actually an emasculating monster who can't stand to have any other woman come between her and her offspring. Crews' steamroller tactics lead Frances Dee to attempt suicide, which results in the breakup of her relationship with Linden. Dunne, who loves McCrea and insists he stand on his own feet, but can he?