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." Megan insisted: "Maybe he was telling the truth...What if he did come back here, looking for the camp counselor that caused him to drown as a boy, searching for the one that decapitated his vengeful mother.Miles gettin"" bumped off upset me, and then you birds crackin"" foxy, but it""s all right now, now hat I know what it""s all about.As the well-dressed, business-suited executive led a tour group (of three potential investors) into the on-site genetic engineering Hammond Creation Lab, she described the park""s advancements and need for further contributions for future attractions:While year-over-year, revenue continues to climb, operating costs are higher than ever.