Joan Crawford .... Agatha Reed
Robert Young .... Doctor James Merrill
Frank Lovejoy .... Matt Cole
Eve Arden .... Woody
Janice Rule .... Virginia Merrill
Lurene Tuttle .... Ellen Griswold
Howard St. John .... Claude Griswold
Viola Roache .... Miss Shackelford
Ellen Corby .... Miss Birdshaw
Morgan Farley .... Doctor Pitt
Virginia Gibson .... Mary Nell Dodge
John Qualen .... Professor Dingley
This film revolves around Agatha Reed played by Joan, a congresswoman who returns to her alma mater from which she had been expelled 20 years before in order to receive an honorary degree. She accepts the invitation in order to see her former love Dr. James Merrill, played by Robert Young who is now the college president. Frank Lovejoy plays Matt Cole a magazine photographer who is covering the story. While Agatha is smitten with Dr. Merrill she is also drawn to Matt. Soon Agatha is pulled into a struggle for more progressive teaching practices and she soon learns that Dr. Merrill is not the man she fell in love with many years ago.
This is a very dated, but interesting film which is truly a statement of its conservative time. Joan gives a good performance and I'm glad to see she's on the side of progressiveness.