" She disagreed with her father""s recent decision to force Marvin to give up his schooling and work in the fields: ("It will nearly break his heart").Overall, the dramatic adaptation of John Steinbeck""s novel was a financial success and made $5 million, and was the 10th highest-grossing film of the year.Dr.Stuart (Fred Stewart) noted that Colbert would have brought progressive modernity to the backward, economically-struggling, bypassed burg: "He came all this way to build us a factory, make something out of this own...machinery is going to take the place of every profession"), (4) the power of low-brow sexual conniving and manipulation (in the Pre-Code era) was evident before it was squelched by conservative forces of censorship, and (5) wealthy and self-centered socialites were struggling with personal and financial issues as much as the common folk.