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Bette Davis as a strong woman driving her husband away with her ambitions. As with Davis it's a strong drama rooted in fine acting and a mature tone. Not sure I felt every aspect of the story was as interesting, but Bette and Barry Sullivan does their bitterness well.

Bette Davis is great. She had immense respect for Jane Cowl, and one can see why--she is wonderful in their scenes together. Pauline Kael: "By the time the celebrated stage actress Jane Cowl turns up, as a broken-down divorcée who is reduced to sharing her life with a grubby poet--a spectacle that shatters Davis's wicked complacency and causes her to reform--the special damp rot of dull 'women's pictures' has set in." (Perhaps a bit harsh, but fun to read nonetheless.)

Sterling performance from Davis in a decent film all round.

Better than I expected. Solid acting, nice score, melodrama is muted & conveys pain of the divorce for both parties while keeping them recognizably human.

The film cuts back and forth between the steps towards divorce and flashbacks to the earlier days of the relationship, using fascinating theater stagecraft (such as set walls that become transparent through lighting tricks to show what's on the other side) to make the transitions. At times, the abundance of technique running through the film has the effect of dulling its energy, but Davis carries the emotion of the film wonderfully, as would be expected.