Summary
A gilded cage of velvet and footlights: Broadway luminary Nancy Bradshaw—incandescent, quick-silvered, the toast of Manhattan—surrenders her name to marble-dusted aristocrat Dick Cunningham, whose diamonds come shackled to the edict that she never again utter iambic verse beneath a proscenium arch. Years slip past like silk through a ring; motherhood calcifies into ornament, while Cunningham’s ardor migrates to Lila Grant, Nancy’s younger understudy, all razor-sharp cheekbones and predatory ambition. A jaunt south of the border becomes pretext for adultery; Nancy, left among dust-sheeted furniture and lullabies, reclaims the boards in Lila’s absence, her voice rekindled from ember to conflagration. Upon return, the cuckolded mogul rages against the trespass, only to be met with a mirror: his own infidelity, brandished like a foil. The marriage dissolves in a hush of legal parchment; Nancy exits clutching both child and spotlight, the curtain falling not on tragedy, but on a woman re-authored in her own ink.
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When wealthy socialite Dick Cunningham insists that prominent actress Nancy Bradshaw give up her career to marry him, she reluctantly consents. Several years pass, Nancy bears a child, and Dick becomes attracted to Lila Grant, Nancy's theatrical successor. When Dick accompanies Lila to Mexico, Nancy replaces her on stage. Upon his return, Dick upbraids Nancy for reneging on her promise to leave the theater, but Nancy turns the tables by confronting him with his betrayal. They agree upon a divorce and Nancy is able to retain her child and her career.
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