Riptide

This film's plot and structure are uncannily similar to Norma Shearer's Academy Award-winning The Divorcee (1930) -- however, Riptide (1934) was made just as the Production Code was coming into power, which resulted in a fatal absence of pre-Code sting, despite its libidinous, adulterous scenario. The film's only pre-Code remnant is Shearer's revealing, bosomy evening gown, under which she wore no bra.

The length and styling of Norma Shearer's hair repeatedly changes from scene to scene and from one sequence to another.

Featured in Complicated Women (2003)