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Virtue

Virtue

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 25, 1932

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Drama, Crime, Romance

User Score

68%

Original Title

Virtue

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Director

Edward Buzzell

Description

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.