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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money to Gert. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] con by Gert.
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money to Gert. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale [[TheCon tall tale]] con tale con]] by Gert.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Jimmy believes Mae is going to back to her old hooker ways. But she isn’t.
** Toots is cheating on Lil with Gert.
** Toots is cheating on Lil with Gert.
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to con some money.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, she takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
* AFriendInNeed: Lil is Mae’s old friend who’s also a prostitute. She once helped Mae by giving her some dough when she came back to NYC, but her biggest help comes later. It’s established that she’s madly in love with Toots, and when she realizes that Toots is the one that set up Mae with the death of Gert, she decides to give him an alibi. However, it turns out this was just a ruse to get Toots into the DA’s office and turn Toots’ supposed alibi into nothing when she admits he wasn’t in her room during the murder. She does this all for her best friend Mae.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, she takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
* AFriendInNeed: Lil is Mae’s old friend who’s also a prostitute. She once helped Mae by giving her some dough when she came back to NYC, but her biggest help comes later. It’s established that she’s madly in love with Toots, and when she realizes that Toots is the one that set up Mae with the death of Gert, she decides to give him an alibi. However, it turns out this was just a ruse to get Toots into the DA’s office and turn Toots’ supposed alibi into nothing when she admits he wasn’t in her room during the murder. She does this all for her best friend Mae.
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. to Gert. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to con some money.by Gert.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready forit the next day. The next day comes and day, Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so money. So, she steals from him, they get in a fight fight, and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, comes for her money, she takes what’s owed to her, finds some and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to Lil get (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll she’ll give him a good alibi.
* AFriendInNeed: Lil is Mae’s old friend who’s also a prostitute. She once helped Mae by giving her some dough when she came back to NYC, but her biggest help comes later. It’s established that she’s madly in love with Toots, and when she realizes that Toots is the one that set up Mae with the death of Gert, she decides to give him an alibi. However, it turns out this was just a ruse to get Toots into the DA’s office and turn Toots’ supposed alibi into nothing when she admits he wasn’t in her room during the murder. She does this all for her best friend Mae.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for
* AFriendInNeed: Lil is Mae’s old friend who’s also a prostitute. She once helped Mae by giving her some dough when she came back to NYC, but her biggest help comes later. It’s established that she’s madly in love with Toots, and when she realizes that Toots is the one that set up Mae with the death of Gert, she decides to give him an alibi. However, it turns out this was just a ruse to get Toots into the DA’s office and turn Toots’ supposed alibi into nothing when she admits he wasn’t in her room during the murder.
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''Virtue'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code era]] film starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Pat O’Brien.
Mae (Lombard) wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married, but Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He decides to forget her past until events brings the subject back again.
Mae (Lombard) wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married, but Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He decides to forget her past until events brings the subject back again.
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''Virtue'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code era]] film directed by Edward Buzzell, starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Pat O’Brien.
Mae (Lombard) is a New York City hooker who wants a change to her call-girllifestyle, and when lifestyle. When she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married, but Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He decides to forget her past until events brings the subject back again.
Mae (Lombard) is a New York City hooker who wants a change to her call-girl
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* {{Streetwalker}}: It was the Great Depression! She needed to eat!
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* DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects Mae. It’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a prostitute can’t be a good wife.
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* DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects Mae. It’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a former prostitute can’t be a good wife.
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* ClearTheirName: What Jimmy sets out to do when Mae has been framed for the murder of Gert.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Jimmy follows Mae after he catches her in a lie and finds her consorting with her old prostitute friends. He sees a man kissing a woman through a window and thinks it’s Mae, but it turns out he’s very wrong.
* DarkSecret: Mae tries to keep her hooker past from Jimmy, but when the police officer that kicked her out of the city finds her with Jimmy, he thinks she’s turning tricks once more, not knowing they’ve just been married. This causes a huge sense of distrust on Jimmy’s part.
* DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects Mae, and it’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a prostitute can’t be a good wife.
* TheExile: Mae has been kicked out of NYC by an officer, but she returns also straight away.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to scheme some money out of people who would buy her shtick.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, she’s the money, takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to his Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Jimmy follows Mae after he catches her in a lie and finds her consorting with her old prostitute friends. He sees a man kissing a woman through a window and thinks it’s Mae, but it turns out he’s very wrong.
* DarkSecret: Mae tries to keep her hooker past from Jimmy, but when the police officer that kicked her out of the city finds her with Jimmy, he thinks she’s turning tricks once more, not knowing they’ve just been married. This causes a huge sense of distrust on Jimmy’s part.
* DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects Mae, and it’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a prostitute can’t be a good wife.
* TheExile: Mae has been kicked out of NYC by an officer, but she returns also straight away.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to scheme some money out of people who would buy her shtick.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, she’s the money, takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to his Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
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* ClearTheirName: What Jimmy sets out to do when Mae has Mae's been framed for the murder of Gert.Gert's murder.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Jimmy follows Mae after he catches her in a lie and finds her consorting with her old prostitute friends. He sees a man kissing a woman through a window and thinks it’sMae, but Mae. But it turns out he’s very wrong.
* DarkSecret: Mae tries to keep her hooker past from Jimmy, but when thepolice officer that kicked her out of the city finds her with Jimmy, he thinks she’s turning tricks once more, not knowing they’ve just been married. This causes a huge sense of Jimmy's distrust on Jimmy’s part.only increases.
* DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspectsMae, and it’s Mae. It’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a prostitute can’t be a good wife.
* TheExile: Mae has been kicked out ofNYC by an officer, NYC, but she returns also almost straight away.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf toscheme con some money out of people who would buy her shtick.money.
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room,she’s the money, she takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to his Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Jimmy follows Mae after he catches her in a lie and finds her consorting with her old prostitute friends. He sees a man kissing a woman through a window and thinks it’s
* DarkSecret: Mae tries to keep her hooker past from Jimmy, but when the
* DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects
* TheExile: Mae has been kicked out of
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to
* FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room,
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* SlutShaming: Jimmy makes it clear to his friend that he wants a virgin through and through, and he thinks he’s won the lottery with Mae, but he’s later crushed to find out she was a prostitute. And he doesn’t let her live it down with his distrust of her every move.
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* SlutShaming: Jimmy makes it clear to his friend that he wants a virgin through and through, and he thinks he’s won the lottery with Mae, but he’s later crushed to find out she was a prostitute. And he doesn’t let her live it down with his distrust of her every move.down.
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Mae (Lombard) wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married. But Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He decides to forget her past until events brings the subject back again.
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Mae (Lombard) wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married. But married, but Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He decides to forget her past until events brings the subject back again.
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Mae (Lombard) is wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married. But Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He does decide to forget her past until events bring all the problems bubbling back again.
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Mae (Lombard) is wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married. But Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He does decide decides to forget her past until events bring all brings the problems bubbling subject back again.
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* AmusementPark: Jimmy and Mae go to Coney Island for their honeymoon.
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* AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to scheme some money out of people who would buy her shtick.
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* AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to scheme some money out of people who would buy her shtick.
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* SlutShamming: Jimmy makes it clear to his friend that he wants a virgin through and through, and he thinks he’s won the lottery with Mae, but he’s later crushed to find out she was a prostitute. And he doesn’t let her live it down with his distrust of her every move.
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* SlutShamming: SlutShaming: Jimmy makes it clear to his friend that he wants a virgin through and through, and he thinks he’s won the lottery with Mae, but he’s later crushed to find out she was a prostitute. And he doesn’t let her live it down with his distrust of her every move.
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Virtue (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code era]] film starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Pat O’Brien.
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Virtue (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code era]] film starring Creator/CaroleLombard and Pat O’Brien.
Mae (Lombard) is wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married. But Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He does decide to forget her past until events bring all the problems bubbling back again.
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!!This film shows the following tropes:
*ClearTheirName: What Jimmy sets out to do when Mae has been framed for the murder of Gert.
*CrazyJealousGuy: Jimmy follows Mae after he catches her in a lie and finds her consorting with her old prostitute friends. He sees a man kissing a woman through a window and thinks it’s Mae, but it turns out he’s very wrong.
*DarkSecret: Mae tries to keep her hooker past from Jimmy, but when the police officer that kicked her out of the city finds her with Jimmy, he thinks she’s turning tricks once more, not knowing they’ve just been married. This causes a huge sense of distrust on Jimmy’s part.
*DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects Mae, and it’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a prostitute can’t be a good wife.
*TheExile: Mae has been kicked out of NYC by an officer, but she returns also straight away.
*AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to scheme some money out of people who would buy her shtick.
*FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, she’s the money, takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to his Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
*AFriendInNeed: Lil is Mae’s old friend who’s also a prostitute. She once helped Mae by giving her some dough when she came back to NYC, but her biggest help comes later. It’s established that she’s madly in love with Toots, and when she realizes that Toots is the one that set up Mae with the death of Gert, she decides to give him an alibi. However, it turns out this was just a ruse to get Toots into the DA’s office and turn Toots’ supposed alibi into nothing when she admits he wasn’t in her room during the murder. She does this all for her best friend Mae.
*HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Both Lil and Mae embody this trope whereas Gert is the aversion.
*KnowNothingKnowItAll: Jimmy thinks he’s sized up Mae pretty well when he guesses that she’s a “steno” out of a job.
*SlutShamming: Jimmy makes it clear to his friend that he wants a virgin through and through, and he thinks he’s won the lottery with Mae, but he’s later crushed to find out she was a prostitute. And he doesn’t let her live it down with his distrust of her every move.
*YourCheatingHeart: Jimmy believes Mae is going to back to her old hooker ways. But she isn’t.
**Toots is cheating on Lil with Gert.
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Mae (Lombard) is wants a change to her call-girl lifestyle, and when she meets naïve cabbie Jimmy (O’Brien), he gives her another chance at life. They become friends and soon fall in love and get married. But Jimmy finds out about her past life and isn’t pleased. He does decide to forget her past until events bring all the problems bubbling back again.
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!!This film shows the following tropes:
*ClearTheirName: What Jimmy sets out to do when Mae has been framed for the murder of Gert.
*CrazyJealousGuy: Jimmy follows Mae after he catches her in a lie and finds her consorting with her old prostitute friends. He sees a man kissing a woman through a window and thinks it’s Mae, but it turns out he’s very wrong.
*DarkSecret: Mae tries to keep her hooker past from Jimmy, but when the police officer that kicked her out of the city finds her with Jimmy, he thinks she’s turning tricks once more, not knowing they’ve just been married. This causes a huge sense of distrust on Jimmy’s part.
*DefiledForever: Jimmy is visibly upset when he finds out that Mae was a prostitute, but he tries his best to forget it. Until he suspects Mae, and it’s obvious that he was waiting for her to screw up and prove to him that a prostitute can’t be a good wife.
*TheExile: Mae has been kicked out of NYC by an officer, but she returns also straight away.
*AFoolAndHisMoneyAreSoonParted: A former prostitute friend of Mae called Gert is very sick and asks her for $200 in order to get a life-saving surgery for some unknown disease. Gert even fails a suicide attempt for this. Now Jimmy has been saving all his money to buy a gas station, and Mae knows it would be a problem if Jimmy found out, but she lends the money anyways. It turns out that this was all a [[TheTale tall tale]] on Gert’s behalf to scheme some money out of people who would buy her shtick.
*FrameUp: When Mae finds out about Gert’s tale, she tracks her down and gives her a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no-holds-barred-slapdown]] because she wants her money, dammit, and tells her to have it ready for it the next day. The next day comes and Gert is telling her worries to Toots who won’t lend her any money, so she steals from him, they get in a fight and he inadvertently kills her when he pushes her. He takes the body into the other room, and when Mae gets to the room, she’s the money, takes what’s owed to her, and goes on her way. Now with this dead body and everything pointing to Toots, all he has to do is go up to his Lil (Mayo Methot), his girlfriend, and hope he’ll give him a good alibi.
*AFriendInNeed: Lil is Mae’s old friend who’s also a prostitute. She once helped Mae by giving her some dough when she came back to NYC, but her biggest help comes later. It’s established that she’s madly in love with Toots, and when she realizes that Toots is the one that set up Mae with the death of Gert, she decides to give him an alibi. However, it turns out this was just a ruse to get Toots into the DA’s office and turn Toots’ supposed alibi into nothing when she admits he wasn’t in her room during the murder. She does this all for her best friend Mae.
*HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Both Lil and Mae embody this trope whereas Gert is the aversion.
*KnowNothingKnowItAll: Jimmy thinks he’s sized up Mae pretty well when he guesses that she’s a “steno” out of a job.
*SlutShamming: Jimmy makes it clear to his friend that he wants a virgin through and through, and he thinks he’s won the lottery with Mae, but he’s later crushed to find out she was a prostitute. And he doesn’t let her live it down with his distrust of her every move.
*YourCheatingHeart: Jimmy believes Mae is going to back to her old hooker ways. But she isn’t.
**Toots is cheating on Lil with Gert.
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