• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Melodrama, Romantic Drama
• Themes: Unrequited Love, Extramarital Affairs
• Director: Thornton Freeland
• Main Cast: Loretta Young, George Brent, David Manners, Louis Calhern, Una Merkel
• Release Year: 1932
• Country: US
• Run Time: 68 minutes

Plot

Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They Call It Sin, Young plays Marion, a church organist in a picturesque Kansas village. She falls in love with visiting city slicker Jimmy (David Manners) -- who, worse luck, is already married to Enid (Helen Vinson). Arriving in New York to try her luck as a songwriter, Marion continues to be strung along by Jimmy, while faithful Tony (George Brent), who has loved her all along, suffers in stoic silence. All the various plot strands are neatly tied up when Humphries (Louis Calhern), a cagey theatrical producer with evil designs on Marion, takes a headlong plunge from his penthouse apartment. They Call It Sin was based on a novel by Alberta Stedman Eagan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Loretta Young - Marion Cullen
• George Brent - Dr. Tony Travers
• David Manners - James Decker
• Louis Calhern - Fred Humphries
• Una Merkel - Dixie

Joseph Cawthorn - Mr. Hollister; Nella Walker - Mrs. Hollister; Erville Alderson - Timothy Cullen; Elizabeth Patterson - Mrs. Cullen; Miki Morita - Mato; Helen Vinson - Enid Hollister

Credit

Thornton Freeland - Director; James Gibbon - Editor; Howard J. Green - Screenwriter; Lillie Hayward - Screenwriter; Jack Okey - Art Director; James Van Trees - Cinematographer; Hal B. Wallis - Producer; Alberta Stedman Eagan - Book Author