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A lavishly appointed nineteenth century costumer in which Joan Crawford, as glamorous as she by any chance was, inveigles her way into a assertion of high influence in the Ashen House of ill repute of childhood friend Andrew Jackson (Barrymore, who steals the picture) - so much so that the President sacks his unrestricted bureau when rumours start to circulate. Crawford’s role was based on the real Peggy Eaton, but it was Beulah Bondi, playing Jackson’s bona fide wife, who came out of the film with an Oscar nomination.

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