Virtue
Yesterday a Lady with a Past — Today the Wife of the Man She Loved!
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
- Year: 1932
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Keyword: waitress, taxi driver, brooklyn, new york city, pre-code, street walker, vice cop
- Director: Edward Buzzell
- Cast: Carole Lombard, Pat O’Brien, Ward Bond, Shirley Grey, Mayo Methot, Jack La Rue