The leading lady is physically rather graceless and her performance is forced. The saintly mother character is a bit sickening. But otherwise I enjoyed Kept Husbands. Joel McCrea is attractive. His performance in the beginning of the film is believable and natural. Unfortunately, towards the end of the film he becomes wooden and could be any run-of-the-mill leading man of the era. I agree with the earlier commenters who note that the makeup in Kept Husbands is enjoyably natural, with the exception of a few of the "rich" ladies who wear the heavy pancake, frizzed hair and shoulder-showing dresses of that film era, and so are indistinguishable from one another. The sound quality is excellent.