Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: 1932
Shopworn  1932. Columbia
Director:
Nicholas Grinde
Cast : Barbara Stanwyck ( Kitty Lane)
      
Regis Toomey, ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield,
         Clara Blandick,
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck , Regis Toomey
Regis Toomey,Barbara Stanwyck
Stanwyck"s popularity with the public was strong enough to make the film do well at the box office, but she was aware that a few more of such pictures could do her harm.
Luckily. Barbara Stanwyck's next film had a good deal more to offer. It reunied her with a director  she liked and worked well with, William A.Wellman and the film was based on Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel "So big" , one of the most popular books of its day.
So Big 1932. Warner Brothers
Director:
William A. Wellman
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Selina Peake)
        
George Brent, Dickie Moore,Guy Kibbee,
           Bette Davis, Mae Madison,  Hardie Albright
Dickie Moore, Barbara Stanwyck
After taking   a couple of weeks off and appearing at the Palace Theattre with Frank Fay  with good success, Stanwyck went back to work. Her new film was one of her least favorites. It was  a tired story about a girl from the wrong side of the track.  and the title said all, it was really shopworn.
Barbara Stanwyck (above as a young woman);
                               
The restless grown son ( Hardie Albright) falls in love with an artist  (Bette Davis  )
Barbara Stanwyck as an older Selina Peake
While her  career was shooting to the stars, barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay's marriage  was still rocky. His film career was almost nonexistent at this point and his drinking was becoming a very serious problem.
Early in the Summer of1932 Barbara and Frank became foster parents to an infant and  on December 5,1932  they became legal parents to the ten-month-old baby boy. He was rechristened Dion Anthony Fay.