Shopworn
A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to prevent their marriage.
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"Barbara Stanwyck stars in SHOPWORN (1932) as Kitty Lane, a young woman who has to move to the city when her father dies after a work accident. She is taken in by her aunt Dot (ZaSu Pitts) and works in a diner frequented by college students who are always hitting on her. Unfairly, she acquires a reputation as an "easy" girl, and this complicates things when she falls in love with David (Regis Toomey), a wealthy young man whose selfish mother (Clara Blandick) will stop at nothing to prevent the two from marrying. The plot of SHOPWORN is standard melodrama – boy loves girl from "..."
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The print shown on Turner Classic Movies, from Sony's archives, displays title credits which were modernized and re-designed in 1938 for a re-release that took place only after several minutes worth of deletions were made to meet the puritanical standards of the much-maligned Hays Code, which was more rigorously enforced starting in 1934. These revised title credits also display a Production Code Certificate of Approval 4749-R indicating a re-release, so some further censorship definitely may have been inflicted upon the film.
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A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to prevent their marriage.