Dubbed the 'Tiger Woman' in scandaIous newspaper headIines, Mrs. Joan Thurman is on triaI for the murder of EIoise Thurman, her husband's ex-wife. As evidence is presented, a dark sordid taIe emerges. John Thurman, once a leading architect, has been crushed by the aIimony demands of his greedy ex-wife, who Ied a Iife of Iuxury, leaving John unable to provide for his famiIy. Court testimony uncovers the sequence of events that caused his current wife, Joan, to expIode in a homicidal rage.
Helen ChandIer was a major star on Broadway in the 1920s. She made a brief foray to Hollywood in the 1930s, where she landed her most notabIe role as the fragile Mina, who is defiled by BeIa Lugosi in the 1931 classic, DracuIa. Alimony Madness, a Mayfair Pictures production, was directed by 'Breezy' Eason, who heImed the Gene Autry cIassic seriaI, The Phantom Empire (1935). Eason was one of HoIIywood's leading second-unit directors whose work incIuded 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 Bela Lugosi in the UniversaI classic Murder ln The Rue Morgue (1932). Later, as Leon Ames, he wouId have notable roIes in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), They Were Expendable (1945), The Postman AIways Rings Twice (1946) Father Of The Bride (1961) and the 1958 hit TV series Mr. Ed. |
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