In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.

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Cast

Joan Bennett

Julie Weir

Henry Fonda

Ives Towner

Louise Platt

Brenda Wayne

Alan Marshal

Michael Shaw

May Whitty

Aunt William

Alan Baxter

Tony

Dorothy Stickney

Mrs. Emily Towner

Tim Holt

Budge Williams

Florence Lake

Carol Towner

William Benedict

Billy (uncredited)

Henry Brandon

Bruno (uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Marie (uncredited)