A Woman's Face (1941)

Joan Crawford plays a cold-hearted Swedish blackmailer (why on earth did this story have to take place in Sweden?) with a horribly disfigured face in this M-G-M melodrama. She falls in love with Conrad Veidt (one of my heroes) who convinces her to murder his cousin so he'll inherit his family's estate. Oh, the cousin is four years old, by the way. She gets a job as the child's governess on Veidt's recommendation but, surprise, she gets cold feet. Veidt then decides to take matters into his own hands. Director George Cukor seems to be battling the nonsense here, and he doesn't always succeed. It might have been more enjoyable with a less intelligent director. Something this silly can't be played straight.