Claudette Colbert receives devastating news: husband Welles has died in WWI. He is in fact alive but disfigured, and feels it best to rebuild a life without her overseas; Stateside, she bears their child and soon marries George Brent. Twenty years later, they meet again… The Golden Age of Hollywood trappings also encompass a Max Steiner score, Jean Louis costumes, character actors Lucille Watson and Ian Wolfe, and a seven-year-old Natalie Wood playing opposite Welles.