Possessed is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The film is the story of Marian Martin, a factory worker who rises to the top as the mistress of a wealthy attorney.

She then meets train passenger Wally Stuart, a New Yorker who gives her champagne and offers his address, inviting her to contact him if she should visit New York.

Marian uses the advice to begin a relationship with Wally's friend Mark Whitney, a wealthy divorced attorney.

Some time later, Al, now running a prosperous cement business, comes to the city hoping to land a big contract.

At the rally, Mark's political rivals drop shards of paper from the auditorium ceiling reading "Who is Mrs.

Uncredited Cast Leonore Coffee, who wrote the script, said she was assigned to write the film by Irving Thalberg, who instructed the writer to give Joan Crawford "a new personality" to play after years of depicting flappers.

Hall wrote: Through Clarence Brown's able direction, handsome settings and a fairly well-written script, "Possessed,"... is a gratifying entertainment.

The familiar theme of a small-town factory girl who becomes the mistress of a wealthy New Yorker is set forth with new ideas which result in surprises, if not in a measure of suspense.