He decided to give up on Madge after bringing compromise between the workers and management.Both of the main stars in the film were at different stages in their careers:Richard Barthelmess, a 37 year-old (playing a 23 year-old), was a silent-screen star who played the role of a sharecropper""s son - it was the last significant role of his careerBette Davis, a 24 year-old in a breakthrough early role as blonde, slim and promiscuous Madge; it was the first in a string of performances as a strong, conniving and wily sexually-appealing Southern female, just before her similarly memorable performance inOf Human Bondage (1934)as blonde, lower-class, pale and anemic, coarse, trashy, slatternly and vulgar, Cockney-accented, pale-faced and illiterate tearoom waitress Mildred RogersAlthough Davis played the role of the sizzling, vampish Southern female with ease, she later admitted that she was a virgin, and was surprised that she had acquired the role.Some friction developed when Tina asked Paul to dance ("You like slow dancing?"), but Samantha whisked him away ("Kiss me, you fool").Stamp looked worried and questioned Ambrose about the sudden arrival of Nyah, even though Ambrose considered it "borderline suspicious, but hardly conclusive.Just as their picture is taken, a ray of sunlight strikes the monolith - signaling the end of the dark, 14-day lunar night.