Drab Charlotte Vale is an unattractive, overweight, repressed spinster whose is verbally and emotionally abused by her dictatorial mother. And finally Drab is freed after a brief love affair with Jerry, a man she meets while on a cruise after spending time in a sanitarium.
...romantic and romanticized, sudsy and sentimental...a throwback to an earlier age in Hollywood when movies didn't have to be loud or vulgar to sell a point.
