She also has adopted a young girl named Isobel Rivers (Ann Gillis as a child), and raises her own son Augustus ("Gussie") Brandon (David Holt as a child).It contains a wonderful and mature performance by Katharine Hepburn, probably her best work in the 1930s, as a social-climbing, vulnerable young woman stigmatized by her family""s lower-class origins and lack of ambition, who sees a respectable marriage to a wealthy man as her only means to be fulfilled and find happiness.Two distracted ground-crewmen (Jerry and David Zucker) were on the tarmac, while one was guiding a large 747 airplane to a hangar with glowing sticks, and accidentally directed the plane into the terminal building.A short flashback revealed hat Byer and Cross had worked together in Somalia some years earlier.Byer knew that his agent-adversary would be difficult to terminate, who was taking his role description seriously:"We are the sin eaters.Maria begs her to lower the neckline one more inch on her dress, as she slightly pulls down on her own bodice ("How much can one little inch do?").