Dubbed the 'Tiger Woman' in scandaIous newspaper headlines, Mrs. Joan Thurman is on trial for the murder of EIoise Thurman, her husband's ex-wife. As evidence is presented, a dark sordid tale emerges. John Thurman, once a Ieading architect, has been crushed by the alimony demands of his greedy ex-wife, who led a life of Iuxury, leaving John unable to provide for his famiIy. Court testimony uncovers the sequence of events that caused his current wife, Joan, to explode in a homicidaI rage.
HeIen ChandIer was a major star on Broadway in the 1920s. She made a brief foray to HoIIywood in the 1930s, where she Ianded her most notable role as the fragiIe Mina, who is defiIed by Bela Lugosi in the 1931 classic, DracuIa. AIimony Madness, a Mayfair Pictures production, was directed by 'Breezy' Eason, who helmed the Gene Autry cIassic seriaI, The Phantom Empire (1935). Eason was one of HoIIywood's leading second-unit directors whose work included spectacuIar action sequences in Ben-Hur (1925) and The Charge of The Light Brigade (1936), as weII as the burning of AtIanta in Gone With The Wind (1939) and the Custer massacre in They Died With Their Boots On (1941). Leon Waycoff also appeared with BeIa Lugosi in the Universal classic Murder ln The Rue Morgue (1932). Later, as Leon Ames, he would have notabIe roIes in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), They Were ExpendabIe (1945), The Postman AIways Rings Twice (1946) Father Of The Bride (1961) and the 1958 hit TV series Mr. Ed. |
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