Every other man took you at your own price—nothing!

SUSAN LENOX (HER FALL AND RISE)

1931

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Written by Leon Gordon, Zelda Sears, Edith Fitzgerald, and Wanda Tuchock, as well as, in an uncredited capacity, something approaching half the staff of MGM (based on the novel by David Graham Phillips)

Spoilers: moderate

The Encyclopedia Brown: Anything's easy for a woman

POSSESSED

1931

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Lenore J. Coffee (based on the play The Mirage by Edgar Selwyn)

Spoilers: moderate

The Encyclopedia Brown: My mother was a saint

THIS MODERN AGE

1931

Directed by Nick Grindé and Clarence Brown

Written by John Meehan, Sylvia Thalberg, and Frank Butler (based on the short story "Girls Together" by Mildred Cram)

Spoilers: mild

The Encyclopedia Brown: Ace attorney

A FREE SOUL

1931

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by John Meehan and Becky Gardiner (based on the play by Willard Mack based on the book by Adela Rogers St. Johns)

Spoilers: moderate

The Encyclopedia Brown: The room at the top of the stairs

INSPIRATION

1931

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Gene Markey (based on the novella Sappho by Alphonse Daudet)

Spoilers: moderate