
Gladys Cooper
(as Mrs. Henry Vale)

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)

Paul Henreid
(as Jerry Durrance)

Claude Rains
(as Dr. Jaquith)
Mrs. Henry Windle Vale: No member of the Vale family has ever had a nervous breakdown.
Dr. Jasquith: Well there's one having one now.
Dr. Jasquith: Well there's one having one now.

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)
Charlotte: Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.

Bette Davis
(as Charlotte Vale)
Charlotte: I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.