B.F.’s Daughter

Barbara Stanwyck stars as wealthy industrialist’s daughter Polly Fulton, who, instead of marrying a rich attorney, weds professor Thomas Brett (Van Heflin) from a much lower social class. Thomas makes no secret of his disgust over Polly’s decadent and privileged lifestyle but he unknowingly benefits from it when he loses his job and his wife secretly uses her money to secure him a new one. Charles Coburn, Richard Hart, Keenan Wynn also star in this drama based on the novel by John P. Marquand. 108 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.