The Flame Within (film)

The film stars Ann Harding, Herbert Marshall, Maureen O'Sullivan, Louis Hayward, Henry Stephenson and Margaret Seddon.

Lillian's physician, Dr. Gordon Phillips (Herbert Marshall), is also in love with Dr. White, but cannot convince her to leave her patients and her practice and place herself under his control.

Frank S Nugent reviewed the film for The New York Times on June 1, 1935: “Ann Harding turns her calm, clear gaze upon troubled souls and brings them peace….

(the film carries on to the conclusion “that feminine psychiatrists may be terribly clever about resolving other people's riddles but are pretty helpless when it comes to solving their own.

The characters all talk too much, they are all crazily in love with the wrong people, and everyone rushes about in a state of suppressed or outright hysteria.…The heiress tries to climb out the window ….