Born To Be Bad (1934) 720p w/Eng softsubs | Pre-Code | Cary Grant, Loretta Young

Drama | Romance | Pre-Code | USA | B&W | 62min | Director: Lowell Sherman, Jack Conway (uncredited) Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Jackie Kelk, Marion Burns, Henry Travers Letta Strong (Loretta Young) is a single mother paying her way by entertaining business clients of her friend and associate Fuzzy (Henry Travers). When her eight year-old son Mickey (Jackie Kelk) is hit by a milk truck while playing truant from school, Letta loses custody in court and Mickey winds up in the care of the truck’s owner: wealthy businessman Mal Trevor (Cary Grant). Letty refuses to give up her son so easily, developing a plan to seduce Mal into an affair and blackmail him. Director Lowell Sherman’s pre-Code drama Born to be Bad is a distinctive and unusual film. While in many ways it seems critically compromised, it also reveals a remarkable boldness and originality in its storyline and characters.