Merrily We Go to Hell

Playful heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) meets journalist and aspiring playwright Jerry Corbett (Frederic March) at a party, and falls for him despite (or because of?) his tipsiness. Cautioned by her alarmed father against being saddled with Jerry, Joan follows through, trying to rehabilitate him and finally joining in his dissipation and carousing. The varieties of self-delusion are many in this elegy to modern marriage.