She crushed a drink glass with her bare hand, but was uncut (one of the toxic after-effects of the beauty product)." Gotham would be destroyed by the League of Shadows - the city was "beyond saving and must be allowed to die.In the all-star cast were:Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert), the matriarchal wife and mother who held her family together (including her two daughters)Jane (Jennifer Jones in her second feature film), her eldest daughter, a high-school seniorBridget (or Brig) (teenaged Shirley Temple in her first major post-childhood role), the younger daughterTim Hilton (Neil Hamilton) (completely off-screen, although pictured in a photograph), the beloved businessman father, who volunteered to serve, and was later reported lost and missing in action in the SW PacificFidelia (Hattie McDaniel), the family""s black maid who worked to pay her rent due to stretched financesWhen her husband went off to World War II in early 1943, Anne Hilton was left behind with her two daughters." The Emperor could only be killed by being stabbed in the heart with the sacred dagger.She claimed: "My mother put a curse on it long ago." She also feared: "If the Emperor reaches Shangri-La and drinks from the Pool of Eternal Life, he will raise his army and no one will be safe.