That Certain Woman

That Certain Woman is a 1937 American melodramatic film written and directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda and Anita Louise.

Jack Merrick, Jr., the playboy son of a wealthy client, elopes with Mary, but his disapproving father interferes and has the marriage annulled.

When Jack's father learns that the boy is his grandson, the elder Merrick institutes proceedings to have Mary declared unfit and the child removed from her custody.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Frank S. Nugent wrote: "For all the heaviness of its theme, for the hopeless monotony of its heroine's ill-fortune, the picture has dramatic value ... Miss Davis performs valiantly as usual, giving color to a role which, in lesser hands, might have been colorless.

"[3] Variety wrote: "The production has class and atmosphere ... a finely made picture which deserves and will get extended first runs and which shoves Bette Davis a round or two higher as box office lure ... [It] demands more of her talent than any film in which she has appeared ... She displays screen acting of the highest order.