After another dissolve, he was viewed at a medium distance as he was picked up in an open convertible by socially-prominent and aristocratic Dr.Jaquith (Claude Rains), the "foremost psychiatrist of the whole country." A skeptical Mrs.Vale contends that she has been reluctantly included in the discussion of her middle-aged daughter Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) who, according to her "is no more ill than a moulting canary.]The Issue of the Education of Tenant-Farmer""s Son Marvin Blake:Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess), the son of over-worked, poverty-stricken tenant-farmer father Tom Blake (David Landau) and Lilly (Dorothy Peterson), was interested in bettering himself, rather han following in his father""s footsteps as a tenant farmer in the rural town of Jonesville.The original film version ofHis Girl Fridaywas director Lewis Milestone""s big hitThe Front Page (1931), produced by Howard Hughes and released by United Artists.