Once to Every Woman

Nurse Mary Fanshawe (Faye Wray) is the supervisor of nurses at a hospital . She's got two surgeons after her - Dr. Jim Barclay (Ralph Bellamy) and Dr. Freddie Preston. She prefers Preston, and that's too bad because he is not serious about his profession and not really serious about Mary since he sneaks off with nurse Doris Andros for a make out session anytime that he can.

The head surgeon, Dr. Walter Selby (Walter Connally) is planning to do brain surgery on a young female patient there, but what he's planning to do is a half measure. Dr Barclay wants to do something a bit more daring - as in more modern - that will completely cure the patient, but Selby is against it.

So it's these two conflicts that comprise most of the short running time of this B hospital drama - old versus young surgeon, and slipshod versus dedicated surgeon. In between there's drama in the woman's ward at the hospital as their guests come and go. One guest is actually the person who put the woman in the hospital, her husband.

There's nothing really precode about it, though it does have its saucier moments, such as when Doris says about Dr. Preston - "The M. D. in his name means more dames!"

It's worth a look if you are interested in old 30s films.