Word: moonstruck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rimplegar (Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive plans to commit suicide with an unpublished novelist, Daughter Elizabeth (Ruth Gordon) turns practical, gets a job at Macy...
Captain Archer takes her in as if nothing had ever happened. But Mattie is moonstruck with too much trouble, and her son adds more. After his engagement to the wealthy Richards girl, he turns around and marries Bessie Casey, a poor fisherman's daughter. Mattie vaguely senses that he is repeating her own headlong mistake, but she encourages him in memory of the brief bliss she once knew. Bessie Casey, though no equal, will make a good wife. Captain Archer consoles himself with the thought that great-grand-children were what he wanted most...
...inclose her imaginative, vaulting husband. But Playwright Burnet's dramatic sense is by no means as lucid as his psychology, and his taste is woeful. The theme is obscured in a plot stuffed with nonessentials. Otto Kruger acts the poet valiantly despite dialog which makes him speak like a moonstruck sixth-former...