Robert Florey's The Woman in Red (1935)

With Sol Polito as cameraman, Florey was able to give The Woman in Red the right polish and old-money atmosphere of excess and entitlement and capture the right mustiness of decaying grandeur.

--Victoria Wilson, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck (Simon and Schuster, 2013) 

Robert Florey was French and came to America to learn movies in the twenties, starting as a gag man and assistant director, working his way up to director.  He mostly made under-the-radar B movies that captured the class warfare and dark sides of America (see my posts of Feb. 5 and July 27 2016 and April 11 and Decl 13 2019). Woman in Red is an examination of class in America, in the form of a soapish melodrama.  It stars Barbara Stanwyck as Shelby, a rider and stablehand, and Gene Raymond as Johnny, a wealthy polo player.  When they decide to marry they head "home" to Johnny's family on Long Island (the original novel on which the film is based was North Shore by Wallace Irwin), who are by no means ready to receive Shelby into the family.  Shelby and Johnny decide to start their own stable business and Shelby borrows money from Gene (John Eldredge) without telling Johnny and then goes yachting with Gene, a trip during which a chorus girl falls off the yacht and drowns and Gene is charged with murder.  Stanwyck at the last minute confirms that she was the mysterious "woman in red" who saw the whole thing and in an unconvincing ending Johnny forgives Shelby and his stuffy family accepts her.

This was Stanwyck's twentieth film in eight years and she dominates the film with her intelligence,  capturing the character with emotional intensity as she yells at Johnny's haughty family, "you people are horrible!"  for their lack of compassion.