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: Hey, that's pretty progressive for... oh

THE SON-DAUGHTER

1932

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by John F. Goodrich, Claudine West, and Leon Gordon (based on the play by George Scarborough and David Belasco)

Spoilers: moderate

Listen, honey, being a Ziegfeld girl is swell, but at most it's only a few years out of a lifetime

ZIEGFELD GIRL

1941

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Written by William Anthony McGuire, Marguerite Roberts, Sonya Levien, and Annalee Whitmore

Spoiler alert: it's easier to predict the ending than in the actual Ziegfeld biopic, but I'll keep it to "moderate"

Tell Mr. Ziegfeld I'm not in, and if I was in, I wouldn't see him, and if I did see him, tell him I wouldn't buy a thing

THE GREAT ZIEGFELD

1936

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Written by William Anthony McGuire

Spoiler alert: he needed... more steps

The grim divorcee

EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS

1952

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Written by George Wells and Ruth Brooks Flippen

Spoiler alert: I'd say moderate, some might say high