
Life gave them only a few short hours of love together...a romance that was rapturous. She gave her life to one man...her love to another. America's loveliest Actress scores her greatest triumph in a story of hidden heartache.
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Claudette Colbert
Nora Trinell

John Payne
Dan Hopkins

Shepperd Strudwick
Dewey Roberts

Ann E. Todd
Kate Hill

Douglas Croft
Dewey Roberts as a boy
Jane Seymour
Mrs. Roberts

Anne Revere
Miss Nadine Price

Bess Flowers
Lady in Political Entourage

Frieda Inescort
Mrs. Dewey Roberts

Harry Hayden
Mr. Roberts

Francis Pierlot
Mr. Steele

Marie Blake
Miss Cartwright
William Henderson
Peter

Chick Chandler
Mr. Mason

Selmer Jackson
Graham