This FOX produced film won 2 Oscars. Best Director in Frank Borzage and Best Writing, Adaptation with Edwin J. Burke, plus nominated for Best Picture losing to MGM's Grand Hotel (1932). Why it was considered such a great achievement, I got no idea. It's a very average film. Just a simple love story. Partly cute, but didn't feel much sparks between the lovebirds and when the whole theme of the movie is about that I wouldn't call it Oscar worthy. Not even close.

Bad Girl is remarkably attuned to the way even the most loving of relationships warrant and involve emotional, personal, and financial sacrifices, and is rendered all the more compelling a considered account of romantic entanglement granted its occurrence during the Depression era -- when enterprising fathers and mothers fought for their families in constant thinness. As directed by the under-referenced Frank Borzage, the end result is a well acted wonder of wittily stirring dramatic astuteness.

The plot is thin but the characterizations are alright. Okay.