Claudia

Claudia

A Stolen Kiss Started All the Scandal!

NR 1943 · 91 min · ★ 7.5 · Comedy, Drama

Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.

Directed by Edmund Goulding · Written by Rose Franken

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