"Unnatural mother love, delinquent juvenile behavior and strange adult thinking..." (Variety, June 1934). A handsomely mounted curiosity that is virtually never shown, this soap opera was the last film made by Lowell Sherman, one of the better and more sophisticated directors of the early thirties. Caught up in the Production Code reforms, Born to Be Bad (about a hard-luck unwed mother who lures a man into marriage) was heavily laundered and cut, but the editing merely seems to have given the sleaze a tighter cohesion! Its main interest obviously is in the playing of Cary Grant and Loretta Young. The child who is the object of all the marital bickering frankly seems like a selfish brat who isn't worth all the fuss... There are some quite gutsy elements to the plot, and the climax is quite surprising, but its relation to reality is virtually nil. William K. Everson